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Pictorial Tour of Amersham
Whielden Street

Leading off Broadway / Market Square is Old Amersham's other main street, Whielden Street. Whielden Street was previously called Union Street owing to the construction of the work house (now the hospital) by "The Union"

A view along Whielden Street with Rectory, or more correctly, Parsonage Woods in the back ground leading up to Amersham on the Hill

Looking towards The Broadway

Whielden Street, Broadway End. I believe the old Hare and Hounds pub used to be sited in one of these buildings

Two views of Whielden Street Nos.22-28 - From the Georgian period and originally one house which was one of many early workhouses in Amersham (until the building of the Union Work House in 1839, Amersham had used many buildings in the High Street and part of Church House as accommodation and work places for the poor). The inhabitants of the workhouse were engaged in lace making and spinning, the rate of pay for which was "a farthing for every 100 turns of the wheel. Nos. 28 - Apple End - often has a notice in the window detailing the history of the building. Inside the building is the remains of an old cell from the work house with original cell door, claimed to be the oldest door in Amersham.

Looking along Whielden Street towards the hospital. The turning to the Platt is by the pick cottage. Nos.19 Whielden Street has a sundial but despite the date shown, the building is probably late 16th century and restored

Amersham hospital. The hospital has recently been rebuilt, the original hospital buildings (above) have been converted into flats and housing. The old hospital was originally the workhouse. The fine Gothic building was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1839 and was built following the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 which obliged parishes to form a "union" to build a workhouse. Whielden Street was known for a time as Union Street because of the workhouse. Although now a hospital, it should not be forgotten that until the second World War, Amersham did not have a hospital. If people were ill, they were wither treated in their homes, sent to a hospital in another town, or if they had a contagious disease they were sent to the "Pest House" on Gore Hill, an isolated building.

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