Leslie and Carl have come to the workhouse also known as the poor house where the sellborn protesters including Aaron gathered in November 1830 why were they coming here poor houses were often seen as symbols of Oppression of the system the master of the Poor House Here is known locally as being a pretty nasty piece of piece of work right so it's not just about their own personal situation they're trying to write all sorts of wrongs that are going on in sbor so we have another report right and it says on Monday morning last a mob about 300 in number collected from the surrounding country entered selborn armed with large clubs they proceeded to the workhouse and in less than 15 minutes the house was unroofed the doors and windows broken to pieces and the furniture destroyed and burnt it's the proper Mutiny it's really thought that you know that these kind of events in places like sellborn might kind of bubble over into a into a revolution yes and all for the rights of people to be able to live and feed their children and live a basic but decent life quite so they partly demolished the poor house in saor the next day Aaron and several other men move on to the neighboring Parish of um of Headley and is that in it documented should we have a look at the next the next document all right so this is the Hampshire Advertiser and Royal Yacht Club Gazette this is somebody called James shith I was the master of the Headley por house the mob returned and rushed into the house like a torrent they came into every part of the house they began to break the windows and the partitions between the rooms the ceilings and rafters of the upper rooms were pulled down they had made their way through to the roof by pushing off the tiles the men continued at work till dark I saw Harding as well as many others drinking the wine go Granddad Thomas Harding was there and got very drunk with the wine there was not one in the house left entire what a night in indeed