The detention was obviously illegal, and the result of the action against the Guardians, with a verdict of £100 damages, I think is likely to be much more effective than any suggestion which might be made by the Local Government Board. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Thankfully a campaign was launched by Sir John Betjeman, helped by the research of Jack Simmons. Because the case had been remitted from a Superior Court, costs on the scale of the High Court were allowed; AR: Local ref: H31/SP. St Pancras Infirmary (South) (1903 - 1922) I have communicated with the Guardians of St. Pancras, and it appears that the main facts stated in the Question are substantially correct. For the records of the London County Council, who took over Saint Pancras Board of Guardians institutions, see LCC. This evolved into the rating system, where the amount of poor-rate charged was based on the value of a person's property. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, the Poor Law Commission was given the power to unite parishes in England and Wales into Poor Law Unions. Poor relief was based on the Act for the Relief of the Poor of 1601 which obliged parishes to take care of the aged and needy in their area. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(02)67734-7, We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. 1372 RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. Responsibility for their institutions passed to Public Assistance Committees managed by the county councils - in the metropolis either the London County Council or the Middlesex County Council. The Parish adopted Hobhouse's Act of 1831 which provided for administration of the parish by an executive committee elected from the ratepayers and continued to operate in this way after 1834, only becoming a Board of Guardians in 1867. In 1809 the St Pancras Board of Guardians built a replacement workhouse at a cost of about £30,000 on the east side of King's Road, immediately to the north of St Pancras Old Church. Noticed a typo? Although there was some reorganisation of union boundaries, particularly in London, the majority of Unions created under the 1834 Act remained in operation until 1930. The workhouse is now Saint Pancras Hospital. St Pancras was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in London, England.It was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, governed by an administrative vestry.The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part of the County of London in 1889. Top of page. KewRichmondSurreyTW9 4DU Tel: +44 (0) 20 8876 3444, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, The Hospital Records database is no longer being updated. The Jury retired, and returned almost immediately with a verdict for Plaintiff, damages £100. Each Union was to be administered by a local Board of Guardians. Original data: Board of Guardians records held by the London Metropolitan Archives, London, England. St Pancras Hospital (South) (1922 - 1929 at Least), Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, At Repository(AR), National Register of Archives (NRA). Seeing the filthy state of the casual inmates the Plaintiff declined, though this cost him a severe struggle with the attendants. For the records of the London County Council, who took over Saint Pancras Board of Guardians institutions, see LCC. He spent three years in the ministry before becoming a journalist. Back; Journal Home; Online First; Current Issue; All Issues; Special Issues; About the journal; Journals. London, England, Poor Law and Board of Guardian Records, 1738-1926 [database on-line]. asked the President of the Local Govern- The Saint Pancras Union also built Highgate Infirmary, which they subsequently sold to the Central London Sick Asylum District. This database contains various poor law records for London. Rules or conventions:Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. This evolved into the rating system, where the amount of poor-rate charged was based on the value of a person's property. In 1868 construction began on an industrial school at Leavesden. Ancestry.com. An Act of 1782, promoted by Thomas Gilbert, allowed adjacent parishes to combine into Unions and provide workhouses. 260 reviews of St Pancras International "Without doubt, St Pancras is one of the most amazing buildings in UK, and along with Milan and Antwerp, one of Europe's great railway stations. For minutes of the LCC St Pancras Hospital Visiting Sub-Committee 1930-1948 see LCC/MIN/2657-2659. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites. 4 St Pancras Way London NW1 0PE . Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering, Deciphering an admission record St Pancras Board of Guardians, https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=833124.0, https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=831484.msg6958929#msg6958929, https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1557/31363_a108954-00000?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=31363_a108954-00215, Re: Deciphering an admission record St Pancras Board of Guardians, https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=833172.0, Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk, RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT United Kingdom.

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