Richard:
We demand our money back!
Francis
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> From: Richard Oliver [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 28 January 2000 22:46
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> Subject: `PA Inst' on OS 1-inch maps
>
> This stands for `Public Assistance Institution', which is what former
> workhouses were termed from 1930 onwards. On (pre-war) 1" `old'
> Popular Edition (originally published 1918-26, reprinted to 1941)
> these are indeed described as `Workhouse'.
>
> I am rather miffed to find that I OMITTED this abbreviation from my
> *Ordnance Survey maps: a concise guide for historians* (1993)!
>
> Richard Oliver
> Geography & Archaeology
> Exeter
>
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