This must have been a most miserable passageway 150 years ago.
The Victorians of the town of Stone lived and enjoyed themselves on the east side of the river, so, on the west, they built the local Workhouse, in which the desperately poor were housed.
To access the workhouse from the comfortable side of town, the poverty-stricken had to pass through this passageway under a small bridge. A bridge of sighs.
After the end of the Poor Laws, the old workhouse became a hospital, and is now - by a curious twist of fate -, luxury apartments!
I can see that being a problem for someone with serious claustrophobia.
ReplyDeleteDear God. That's almost biblical.
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