A British workhouse that inspired the bleak asylum where Charles Dickens’s starving character Oliver Twist had the audacity to "want some more" gruel will be turned into a high-end apartment building.

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Born into poverty and misfortune, Oliver Twist escapes the workhouse for a life of adventure where he joins Artful Dodger, Fagin and their mischievous gang of pick pockets. But the enjoyment is short ...