Bexley High Street at the junction with Station approach, showing the former workhouse for Bexley Parish, now a row of shops.

The destitute poor of the parish of Bexley had for some years been housed in the old vicarage which stood opposite the south side of the church until the late 18th century.

Shortly after a house standing at the junction of the High Street with Station Approach served the same purpose.

After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 a Union Workhouse was set up at Dartford to which those reduced to the extremes of poverty could be sent from surrounding parishes.

The second image is detail from the first.