Southam Workhouse

“Southam Workhouse” is available from the Southam Heritage Collection at Tithe Place Community Rooms, High Street, Southam CV47 0HB for £7.00 (P&P £2.50) – please make cheques payable to Southam Heritage Collection. You can also order and pay online (or instore) using your credit/debit card by clicking on this link.

Or email southamheritage@hotmail.com if you are purchasing from overseas or call Linda Doyle on 01926 814214 for more details.

The Southam Heritage Collection is delighted to be able to publish Dr Roland Raffell’s 75 book on Southam’s Workhouse which stood on Welsh Road on the site of what is now Southam’s Primary School until the 1960’s although it was no longer used as a workhouse in those days.

Roland wrote this book following extensive research in the Collection Archives and the Warwick Records Office.

The book is not intended as an academic treatise but more a readable description of life in the Southam Workhouse and how the Workhouse fitted in with society in general and Southam in particular, and the concept of how society aimed to help the poor in the 19th Century..

Roland is a volunteer for the Southam Heritage Collection and spends one morning each fortnight helping out in our Exhibition Room explaining about our current exhibition and various aspects of Southam’s History including, for instance, the Sister’s School.