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Markham House, Hipper Street, Chesterfield, 2009
Image ref
DCCC002896
Credit
photographer
Holland, J
ImageDate
November 2009
Location
Hipper Street
Town
Chesterfield
About this image
The Markham Hostel was at the bottom of Hipper St, and was purchased by C P Markham and donated to the borough in April 1918 as a 'model lodging-house'. The photographer remembers people in his youth calling it a 'workhouse', and the inmates may well have had to work to earn their place. It was built with the idea of being run on Rowton lodging-house lines (Derbyshire Times, 6/4/1918). Rowton was a philanthropist who founded men's lodging-houses in London, 'a new form of poor man's hotel where lodging, catering, and the advantages of a club should be offered at the lowest price'. (Reginald Lucas 1912)
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