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The West Bromwich Union Pauper Memorial Committee

The West Bromwich Union Paupers Memorial Committee was established to provide a living memorial in the memory of all those lives which were affected by involvement in the West Bromwich Union Workhouse, and were buried following their death in a public grave without a headstone or lasting mark of any form as to their passing from this world into eternity.

The memorial will consist of a permanent installation in Heath Lane Cemetery, West Bromwich, which will commemorate paupers buried at the public expense in the cemetery and especially those who died as inmates of the West Bromwich Union Workhouse.

It must be a fitting memorial to those thousands buried in the Pauper Burial ground whose graves cannot have an individual headstone as stipulated by law. We hope it will help the community to explore the relationships between "history", "nostalgia" and the present.

This web site has been produced by the West Bromwich Union Pauper Memorial Committee with the help of the Local Heritage Initiative. It has been created to share the work of the group with the people of West Bromwich and with anyone else who has an interest in the town and area.