A workhouse shopping list

Beef, Beef Suet, Legs and Shins of Beef

Legs of Mutton, Master's Meal

Bread, Flour

Butter, Cheese

Round Meal, Barley, Pease, Linseed Meal

Soap, Candles, Oil

Red Sand, White Sand, Pearl Ash, Soda

Tea, Sugar, Milk, Potatoes

Coffins (separate quotes for under 3ft, 3 to 5ft, 5ft and upwards)

Lime, Gin

Glass

Hosiery, Haberdashery and Linen Drapery

Blue Corduroy Trousers

Coats, Waistcoats

Shoes, Boots (for children)

Hats, Caps

Coal

Send your quote to the Bermondsey Board of Guardians, marked 'St Olave's Workhouse', before the end of April 1869.

[Bermondsey Board of Guardians Minutes, BBG 36, at the London Metropolitan Archives]