A Night in a Freezing Victorian Asylum in 1800s London (Beggars Hotel for the Poor)

Victorian London's asylum for the poor was a cold, desperate place to shelter, where people went only because the workhouse was even worse. Known as the 'Beggar's Hotel,' this was where the hungry and homeless in the 1800s would receive charity of bread and a place to sleep for the night. But, these were coffin-like beds where you had to sleep with a mass of coughing residents, use tarpaulin to keep out rats and do your best to stay warm in winter from the heat of a single stove. Find out what it was like to spend a night here in the 1840s with a genuine account of the asylum and its residents told by Henry Mayhew, a Victorian journalist.

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CC BY - Part of St. Marylebone Workhouse prior to reconstruction, The Society of Friends soup kitchen, Distributing soup at the Stranger's House Limehouse, poor people coming to a workhouse for food, New ward for the casual poor at Marylebone workhouse, The Field Lane refuge by Wellcome Collection; The organ grinder by JoJan
CC BY-SA - Street signs at the corner of Whitecross Street and Banner Street, London by osde8info; Blue plaque erected in 1953 by London County Council at 55 Albany Street, Regent's Park, London NW1 4BT by Spudgun67

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