Thanks very much Stan for your reply regarding the various building extensions at Sunderland Union Workhouse. The Union Schools are interesting. Apart from your reference to when they were opened I can't seem to find any more information about them. TWAS does not seem to list a Union School or Workhouse School. On the later census returns some of the teachers aren described as "industrial school trainers" so I wonder if the school became an "Industrial school" But if so, again it is difficult to find any more references. Can anyone help? Many thanks Rob