... inmate of the workhouse, thought there was courtship going on between Brown and Murray. Nathan Knowles said that he had been an inmate of the workhouse more than four years. He knew Brown and Murray. He remembered Brown leaving the workhouse. Before she ...

... the township of Blackburn. He had been one of the Visitinig Committee of the workhouse for three years or more. As a mem- ber of the Workhouse Committee be visited the Workhouse frequently. oftener than once a week. He had seldom missed going once a week ...

... a very genial conclusion with regard to the workhouses in this particular union. The very first visit he paid to Preston after his appointment resulted in a curious epose concerning our principal workhouse; and the din of the fight which ensued thereon ...

... dopbt the opposition, in many Oplaces, to union workhouses, was of this nature. Without inquiring to what extent such motives may have assisted to defeat previous proposals for the erection of a union workhouse in Preston, the subject now comes before us ...

... -seeinig thbi rbi to -'the endi in ndvfl~tivi new workhouse is onl yifi ni thtatthe Preston pedpld are as anxious to - eehi 'Blackburn and other townti, in bavlngt a tbordu~nthcp eoous and suitble workhouse without architct ats6ita-or excess of cost, as ...

... separation, the wife is put in l Preston workhouse; the husband is sent to Ribehester workhouse, ten mites distant; the boys are placed in t Walton workhouse, three miles from Preston; and the I girls in Penwortham workhouse, two miles from Preston in another ...

... THE UNION WORKHOUSE QUESTION. be The Preston Board of Guardians, last Tuesday, sol decided, by a large majority, to take steps for the ol erection of a new workhouse for this union. A few re, years since, such a motion would have been lost at the ny Board ...

... THE CHRON ICLE. i . ~ PRISTOx, SATURDAY, A GUST14, 1869 OUR NEW WORKHOUSE. - Pl ?? +^ln UiMA- I ?? A-1 .- .- l :.L ._ _ . .L A- 1kreston hals had more trouble with its new workhouse than Hercules had with the whole of his twelve labours. An unlucky ...

... THE WALTON WORKHOUSE BLUNDER. COMMITTAL OF THE LATE GOVERNOR FOR MAN- SLAUGHTER. On Wednesday, an inquest was opened at the House of Recovery, in this town, on the body of a boy, named James Seed. Ellen Walton, Matron of the House of Recovery, de- posed ...

... I FULWOOD WORKHOUSE, PRESTON. I Great improvements, have been made in workhouse sincer the Ant of Parliamenit for their establishment Wa; passed io 16t01. Before the estahlishment of a work- honee at Preston those in need. received relief, to some extent ...

... way of keeping matters warm we shall dwell specially upon the comparative costiiusi of our new workhouse. We purpose setting up the Blaci- burn workhouse as our criterion, simply because the union in which it is situated bears a closer resemblance ;4 ...

... PRESTON NEW WORKHOUSE. II On Tuesday, the now workhouse for the Preston Union was opened, by He. B. Addison, Esq., who, it will be remembered, laid the foundation stone of the same building three years ago, The guardians met as usual at their board-room ...