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WORKHOUSE FELICITY

... WORKHOUSE FELICITY At the last meeting of the Fulham Board of Guardians a letter was read from an inmat9 of the Workhouse, named Surrett, addressed to the Local Government Board, and forwarded for the remarks of tho guardians. We get, says Surrott, ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1880
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE FOR AGED

... WORKHOUSE FOR AGED ANIMALS. ’ The ENGLISHMAN (Calcutta) contains a most interesting account of the workhouse or asylum for aged and infirm beasts and birds that was establisbed ‘some thirteen years ago vy a society of influential Hindoos. It is near the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1899
Newspaper: Guernsey Evening Press and Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONNUBIALISM IN WORKHOUSES

... CONNUBIALISM IN WORKHOUSES. The plan of allowing husbands and wives to live together in workhouses has not proved altogether a success. The subject was broueht nnder notice at the last meeting of the Mile- end Old Town Board of Guardians, wben the • chairman ...

Published: Thursday 21 February 1884
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WASTE IN WORKHOUSES

... WASTE IN WORKHOUSES At the last meeting of the Board of Guar- dians of St. Pancras, a report from Mr. Henry Goodson, the Superintendent of the workhouse of that parish, was read on the question of Waste in that establishment. It appears from Mr. Goodson's ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1879
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A WORKHOUSE STORY

... A WORKHOUSE STORY At tbe Burnley Board of Guardians on Thursday the clerk mentioned a remark- able case. A man who paid a weekly sum to the guardians Jor the maintenance of a child in the workhouse, and was given a receipt for each payment, took it into ...

Published: Tuesday 14 September 1897
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MURDER IN A WORKHOUSE

... MURDER IN A WORKHOUSE A shocking murder was perpetrated on Tues- day evening, between seven and eight o'clock, in the infirmary which is attached to the City of London Work-house, in the Mile End-road. It appears that on Monday a policeman found a man ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1880
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 473 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A WORKHOUSE BOMANCE

... A WORKHOUSE BOMANCE. An extraordinary occurrence was reported to the Christchurch Board of Guardians on Wednesday respecting a girl nearly three years old boarded out at Bransgore village. Tbe child was left unowned at the work- house gates some two ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1897
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLEGED WORKHOUSE INHUMANITY

... ALLEGED WORKHOUSE INHUMANITY On Ihursday at the Southwark Police-court, a decent-looking man, apparently in great dis- tress, appealed to the Magistrate for his assist- anceunder the following circumstances. He said that for some time he had been nnable ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1881
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOVE IN A WORKHOUSE

... LOVE IN A WORKHOUSE. The master of the Yeovil Workhouse was recently visited by a farm labourer about 40 years of age, who said his wife was dead, and he had no one to keep house for him. He asked if the master could recommend him a decent womau as h ...

Published: Thursday 30 November 1893
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A WORKHOUSE MYSTERY

... A WORKHOUSE MYSTERY. A man who for the past two years has been an inmate of the Elham (Kent) Work- house, under the assumed name of Wilton Lo ward,' has just died suddenly from heart disease. He was evidently by birth and education a gentleman, and ...

Published: Tuesday 26 July 1887
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIRE AT KILLARNEY WORKHOUSE

... FIRE AT KILLARNEY WORKHOUSE SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM. The Press Association's Killarney corres- pondent telegraphs : — At two o'clock on Thursday morning the master and inmates were alarmed by a reporc of tire which had broken out in the laundry of the ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1887
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A MODEL WORKHOUSE

... in-door relief. The Whitechapel Workhouse is most healthily situated on a spacious site at South- grove, off the Mile-end-road. It was built some teu years ago, and stands about a mile's distance from the old workhouse in Baker Row, which is now used ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1882
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 1394 | Page: 4 | Tags: none