Thursday, 30 January 2014

John Merrick recorded in the Leicester Union Workhouse



The Leicester Union Workhouse register recording the admission of 17-year-old Joseph Merrick (2nd from top), who would become known as the Elephant Man. By this time he was a hawker, but in the observations column it records simply that he was ‘unable to work’.
 
 
 

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