There was a Work house in Wawick Road I remember before ww2 the tramps used to pass our house on the main Oxford Road in Adderbury with a tin with a small amount of tea and some bread they would have spent the night there and were walking on to the next one I believe they were only allowed one night. People that fell on hard times were sent there if they had no other means of support or were to ill to look after themselves and had no one else. My husband came from a large family and they all got impetigo so were taken there to get treatment he said it broke his Mothers heart. Most elderly people dreaded that they would be sent to the Workhouse which was built in 1835. By the 1950s it was used as a hospital for cases that were recuperating from an operation or not needing too much care. Even then people still thought of it as a workhouse Part became a maternity ward. A new brick building behind the main hospital called The Pines was bult for isolation cases mostly for children with scarlet fever.and later still in the 1960s for t.b. cases. A few years ago it was all finally knocked down to make a home and housing for the mentaly disabled. This is my memories and what I have quickly managed to find about banbury Workhouse. A book on Banbury Published Victoran Banbury 1982 and one last year by Brian Little gives a somwhat sketchy detail of this subject and how it was involved with the poor law in the 19th century. best wishes rhoda