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MODERN WORKHOUSES

... the habit of visiting the workhouse for some years, that it was really an ecceptionzay well conducted place. My visit leads me to quite endorse this opinion, and I should be very glad indeed to find all other country workhouses so comnortable and w-e'i ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1891
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1932 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

LEEDS WORKHOUSE

... LEEDS WORKHOUSE. :OU- TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. wine m leir GENTLEM~EN,-There is One Statemlent ?? Mr. of iac uib Joseph Rowntree's letter that appeared in your Tuesday's f a issue, respecting the dietary table of the Leeds Work- aerliJ house ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE NEW WORKHOUSE

... THE NEW WORKHOUSE. TaE laying of the foundation idtf6-_of a new Workhouse for the accommodat',,jot- the poor of the township of Leeds is an event of considerable fin- portance in our ;c,, innals. The old building in Lady-lane has ,ang been insuflcient ...

Published: Tuesday 06 April 1858
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS WORKHOUSE

... physical infirmity, many of them shudder at the mention of the Workhouse, and prefer semi- starvation to what they are pleased to term a sacrifice of their liberty. This feeling against the Workhouse was in one or two cases so marked as to induce the writer ...

Published: Tuesday 23 February 1869
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3329 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

RIPON WORKHOUSE

... RIPON WORKHOUSE. OPEKN'ING OF TEE -EW' I2NnEMAAll. Though probably not more dilatory than most bodies of the kind, the Ripon Board of Guardians may bei fairlv reckoned to 'have taken time enough over the erection of an adequate -workhouse infirmary, seeing ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1899
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS WORKHOUSE

... account of the visit made to the Leeds Workhouse - Mr. Cane and I visited this workhouse on 10th October, 1806. It is situate upon the border of the town, and occupies a considerable plot of land. The body of the workhouse, the infirmary, the lunacy wards, ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1868
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1140 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

MODERN WORKHOUSES

... WORKHOTUSES. T'.- -A TOWN WORKHOUSE: LEEDS. SECOND ARTICLE. Enrore A hssCasn ConnxaovnnFT ) orfl-aeti mr inspection of the teeus Workhouse t-> ,I ti' ste litter half oi my tasekis much more it than rhe former, the Workhouse Indrmarr s: Thn-stati S-ho ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1891
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2496 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

THE WORKHOUSE SCANDAL

... P6LLoci aud a special j ury, thei hearing of this case, which is an action for libel between 3 'officials of, the -Shoreditch Workhouse, was resumed B teasterday morning~.. , Mr.'W.&DPY,- Q.O., nnd Mr. EnwAD PO= LLoOapneared focthe pleinti:;. Sir ?? (11FFI ...

Published: Friday 16 December 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1260 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MODERN WORKHOUSES

... easuals. Of outdoor, there! nm-+r under relief 3.2;4 Th- 11ere w-ere 263 children 1 chr-geable to the llnion-17 in. the w~ork-house, 317 in th-le Industrial Schoolas, SO in the infrmary, 37 boarded cut, S in the Beate tpa Orphage, 10 in the Headinaler ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1891
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3252 | Page: 11 | Tags: News