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Stone head from the St Andrew's the Less workhouse c. 1830This is believed to be the same location as the St Andrew the Less Workhouse, Staffordshire Gardens. It was built in 1830 and could accommodate up to 46 children. It was demolished in the 1960s.
St Andrew the Less Workhouse, Staffordshire Gardens (Street)
[I have tried to locate this institution in censuses for 1851-1881 with no success to date. RGL 2.7.2020]
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1891: (8-9 Staffordshire Gardens)
unoccupied
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1901:
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St Andrew the Less Parish workhouse, 199 (photo H P Stokes) (Cambridgeshire Collection)
H P Stokes wrote in 1911: When the central Union was formed in 1836, this Workhouse was altered to a certain extent, and used for the reception of girls and boys (to the number of 46). The interesting house is now inhabited by a venerable and intelligent old lady who carries her 94 years with much vivacity. She knew the place well in her childhood, and she laughingly remarks that she has come to die in ‘the Workhouse’. She remembers Mr and Mrs Arnold, the former master and mistress of the institution, who used to allow her and a few children living Covent Gardens to play with the pauper boys and girls after they had finished ‘their work.’
1911:
Robert Innie McMurray, 64, lodging house keeper, b Belfast
Ann Louisa McMurray, 63, assisting in business, b Birmingham
Arthur Clark, deputy, 21, single, hotel labourer, b London
Under is names of Lodgers in Common Lodging House:
Frederick Thomas,26, carpenter, b Oxford
Henry Munt, 27, labourer, b Hants
William Goodyear, 50, gardener, b Hants
Amas Keep, 56, baker, b Beds
Henry Wilson, 25, general labourer, b Sheffield
William Budley, 61, general labourer, b London
Reginald Dobson, 25, tailor, b Manchester
John Humber, 60, general labourer, b Dorchester
John Bain, 49, stone mason, b Peterborough
George Tinsley, 56, iron moulder, b Warwicks
Charles Taylor, 32, general labourer, b Colchester
Alexander Rennie, 25, baker, b Scotland
William Smith, 22, electric labourer, b Leeds
Benjamin Thomas, 29, showman, b London
Harry Alderton, 42, army pensioner labourer, b Cambridge
John Tweed, 61, shoemaker, b Essex
Thomas Brown, 35, carpenter, b Norwich
Joseph Cockburn, 67, coach builder, b Edinburgh
Percy Ethridge, 25, fruiterer, b Cambridge
Moses Hows, 71, old age pensioner, b Hauxton
Walter Kefford, 43, general labourer, b Trumpington
John Boston, 56, cooper, b South Shields
Harry Gray, 54, 54, labourer, b Cambridge
Horace Alderton, 26, cab driver, b Cambridge
William Lee, 64, porter, b Cambridge
Fred Bowron, 29, labourer Stockton on Tees
Edwin Simmonds, 46, hawker, b Cambridge
George Hills, 34, labourer, b Cambridge
William Simmonds, 60, labourer, b Newmarket
John Foredam, 37, labourer, b Newmarket
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1913: Victoria Lodging House
Robert Macmurray, manager
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