Image ID: 21844

Poor Law Union Chairman and Workhouse Staff c 1900

Union Workhouse, Stockwell Gate
Mansfield
England

The central figure in the front row is Samuel White Skelton, of Dale Close, Chesterfield Road, the Chairman from 1899 to 1905. The man on the left of the front row is J. G. Hammond (d. 1915), the Master, an ex-Army man; fond of decorating the facade with flowers, he had itinerant pavement artists decorate the walls. Mrs. Annie Hammond, on the far right of the front row, retired in 1928 after 40 years service, carrying on as virtual Master after her husband's death.

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