It's almost 14 years since I first came across Brixworth Workhouse . When I came back from that encounter, I wrote a blog post that quoted the website of the village's history society: The first Master of the Brixworth Union Workhouse in 1837 was a Mr Baillie with his wife appointed as the Matron, and the first meeting of the Board of Guardians took place in the Workhouse on May 4th of the same year. Within five years of the Workhouse opening the cost of "out relief" in Brixworth had been reduced to £0-9s-0d a week for those entitled to it.

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