Imposing Front Madron Workhouse , now derelict. Cars dumped. 1965

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Title

Imposing Front Madron Workhouse , now derelict. Cars dumped. 1965

Subject

Public Building

Description

The Workhouse, officially known as the Penzance Union Workhouse, was designed by the prominent Victorian architectural partnership of George Gilbert Scott (later Sir George Gilbert Scott) and William Bonython Moffatt.
Artist, Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), spent his final days and died here.

Publisher

Morrab Library

Date

1965

Rights

Morrab Library

Format

Print

Identifier

BUILD 7HF 226

Coverage

Madron, near Penzance, Cornwall

Building Name

Workhouse

Period Costume

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