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Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 29 Send Message	Colette	Report	21 Jun 2006 19:17
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 29 Send Message	Can anyone out there help me? I have just recieved a marraige cert from 1888 and the brides address is down as Union Buildings Blackburn. Am I wrong or is this the workhouse. Does anyone know??
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 16,612 Send Message	Julie	Report	21 Jun 2006 19:28
	Hi Colette if you google Union Buildings Blackburn there are a few sites come up Julie
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 651 Send Message	Andrea	Report	21 Jun 2006 20:11
	I have a family in Union Buildings in Blackburn and it isn't the Workhouse. I think they are houses for the poor or some such but it's not the workhouse.
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 651 Send Message	Andrea	Report	21 Jun 2006 20:16
	I stand corrected - it looks like it was the workhouse or houses for the people that worked there but maybe weren't inmates or some such?? My full family were there and are on the census as a separate family. It was the original workhouse site but then moved to what is now Queens Park Hospital. Check out www.workhouses.org.uk and it has it on there. Or Google it.