Whittlesey like many town/cities in the 1800’s to the early 1900’s had a workhouse…this is a small part of the history of ours…if a search of
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Whittlesey/
will reveal local names who were ‘residents’ of the establishment….there was ‘workhouses’ both on Broad Street Whittlesey and Eastrea Road Whittlesey.