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WORKHOUSE GRUMBLERS

... WORKHOUSE GRUMBLERS. Complaints by paupers of the treatment they receive have of late considerably increased in number. All that the grumbler has to do (remarks the City Press) is to address a letter to the Local Government Board bringing an army ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1894
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WATERLOO AND THE WORKHOUSE

... week, came Into the workhouse.” This was In IMiO. For six years he has been good example to the other inmates of the house : and has no complaints except that ho feels the Isolation from his vlllagw friends, and finds some the workhouse food too heavy lor ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1866
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1065 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CREED REGISTER IN WORKHOUSES

... CREED REGISTER IN WORKHOUSES. On the Ist of January a general order, issued the Poor-law Board to the several boards of guardianB, came into operation, prescribing creed register to be kept in all workhouses. By it the workhouse roaster—or, in the event ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1869
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A VISCOUNTESS IN THE WORKHOUSE

... A VISCOUNTESS IN THE WORKHOUSE. At a meeting of the Camberwell Guardians, the Berk reported that he had received a letter, signed Viscount de Stainer, dated from the Queen's-park Estate, with reference to a young woman named Beatrice Pedgrift, who ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1885
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ALTERATION AT UNION WORKHOUSE

... ALTERATION AT UNION WORKHOUSE •r`HE GUARDIANS of the Poor of the Newport Pagnell Union are prepared to receive TENDERS for the following Structural Alterations at their Union Workhouse, viz : The construction of 'three New Windows in the East Wall of ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1893
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 487 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PBISON v WORKHOUSE!

... PBISON v WORKHOUSE! A lady has sent the following letter to leading journal for publication As from time time you direct attention tho minugemeut our workh ami prisons, I lt-ae* bring under your notice subjoined dialogue, which place few week* since at ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1865
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NARRATIVE OF A WORKHOUSE BOY

... NARRATIVE OF A WORKHOUSE BOY. Some doubts having been expressed by the Bristol Board of Guardians and others, concerning the truth of Miss Carpenters statements before the Committee the House of Commons relative the usage experienced tbe workhouse boysin the ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1861
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ELOPEMENT FROM A WORKHOUSE

... ELOPEMENT FROM A WORKHOUSE. An aaihinatical old man, r»0 years of named Jonas B*x>tb, who had been an inmate the Bradford Workhouse since November oth, 18G3, won the affections of deaf and dumb woman, named Mary Lamb, who was also inmate, and the October ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1868
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RIOTOUS CONDUCT AT A WORKHOUSE

... RIOTOUS CONDUCT AT A WORKHOUSE. Vincent Moon, a pauper inmate of the Holborn Union Workhouse at Mitcham, has been charged at Croydon Police-court with refractory conduct and wilfully committing damage to the mill-room to the extent of £5O. Alfred Wallis ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1891
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 491 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

mind tho guardians that it is their duty to appoint a visiting Committee to carefully ex. amino the workhouse and

... respective workhouses, and in order that these visits shall be fully complete the guardians are reminded that they are expre , .ly empowered to appoint an additional Coil. mittee of ladies to visit and examine those parts of the workhouse in which female ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1895
Newspaper: Croydon's Weekly Standard
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1147 | Page: 4 | Tags: none