aberdeen granite
Main Entrance Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen
Oldmill Reformatory, Poorhouse & Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen; the buildings at Oldmill-Woodend are later additions to what was originally a boys' reformatory. Opened in 1856, an outgrowth of the Industrial School system of the 1840s, the reformatory was designed to hold, educate and reform delinquent and destitute juveniles. In 1899 the reformatory closed and the site was further developed as an Aberdeen Poorhouse with the present granite buildings, described as "stately", going up 1906-1907, capable of holding 961 inmates (paupers as they were known) including 116 children. The new facility had its own hospital, nurses' home as well as vegetable garden, poultry and pigs. The old East and West Poorhouses were vacated in May 1907, their inmates travelling on Great North of Scotland Railway buses to the very outskirts of the city, not at all handy for relatives to visit inmates. Within forty years the Parish Poorhouse system came to an end, replaced by the Welfare State although, as they say, not poverty which, relative or otherwise, continues to haunt society much as does its opposite.
Main Entrance Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen
Oldmill Reformatory, Poorhouse & Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen; the buildings at Oldmill-Woodend are later additions to what was originally a boys' reformatory. Opened in 1856, an outgrowth of the Industrial School system of the 1840s, the reformatory was designed to hold, educate and reform delinquent and destitute juveniles. In 1899 the reformatory closed and the site was further developed as an Aberdeen Poorhouse with the present granite buildings, described as "stately", going up 1906-1907, capable of holding 961 inmates (paupers as they were known) including 116 children. The new facility had its own hospital, nurses' home as well as vegetable garden, poultry and pigs. The old East and West Poorhouses were vacated in May 1907, their inmates travelling on Great North of Scotland Railway buses to the very outskirts of the city, not at all handy for relatives to visit inmates. Within forty years the Parish Poorhouse system came to an end, replaced by the Welfare State although, as they say, not poverty which, relative or otherwise, continues to haunt society much as does its opposite.