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I m still standing - The Spike, Maldon s original workhouse | Maldon and Burnham Standard

MY late maternal grandmother often used to call St Peter’s Hospital ‘The Spike’. As a youngster it intrigued me, but it wasn’t until later in life that I realised why. I discovered that strange colloquial term of hers was actually a nod to the building’s past. Prior to it becoming the caring NHS establishment that we know today, it was a workhouse. Opened in 1873, it was a place dreaded by my grandmother and her contemporaries – somewhere they didn’t want to end up, hence (it turned out I wrongly supposed) the nickname – representing something sharp and somehow coldly menacing.

Thomas Plume Library gets £60k grant from Historic England | Maldon and Burnham Standard

ONE of England’s oldest public libraries has been awarded a massive grant of more than £60,000 to help with repairs. Thomas Plume’s Library in Maldon, which contains more than 8,000 volumes dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, will receive a grant of £67,962 for the repair of Grade I listed building from Historic England. The library was built on the site of the former church of St Peter of which only the 15th century west tower remains following the collapse of the church nave in around 1665. The Plume Library was added to Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register in 2020.

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