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Children sent to the Workhouse

The wealthiest person in Louth

Developments in the Church during the English Reformation

Fragment of silver Tudor coin

To avoid a pauper’s funeral

There was an open fire in the classroom!

A substantial business in Victorian Louth

Nonconformists refused to pay local taxes for education

A barrister who lived in Louth but worked in the Middle Temple in London.

Many economically disadvantaged women used prostitution to supplement their income