It is rumoured that Benjamin Britten came to Leicester circa 1937 to conduct the Leicester Folk Song Club Choir singing "Captains Apprentice."
the Workhouse in question -St James fell down in 1852 when the Clock-maker was called out on a Sunday morning to repair the clock. The Building had had bricks robbed , he gave the Turret a hearty clout and the whole Building collapsed.
There is a full account in the Library which is about 50 yards from the relics of St James's Work=house in Kings Lynn