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Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
The photo 'Albury, the Village c1950' appears in this book.
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This was indeed once the place where paupers and those down on their luck could seek food and a roof over their head. However, if they were able-bodied they had to do menial tasks to earn their keep. Four years after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the much larger Guildford Workhouse opened, doing away with this smaller poorhouse.
An extract from Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories.
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