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WORKHOUSE GIRL

... , who whom he had taken into his service from the Stonehouse was alleged to have ill-treated a girl named Eliza Bailey, Workhouse, has written to the Guardians of that town, stating that he is fully prepared to prove by his house- the statement is false ...

Published: Friday 26 August 1870
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STONKHOUSB WORKHOUSE

... NEHOUSER WORKHOUSE Sie,—At « special meeting of the Guardians of the Poor for this parish, held last week, the following tenders for the extension and alteration of the above premises were re- ceived:—Mr. Verren, £782; Mr. T. Taylor, £316; and Mr. £817; ...

Published: Friday 04 June 1875
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1294 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE BREAD

... WORKHOUSE BREAD. The doings of the bakers who supply the poor ol Oxfordshire with bread are wcythy of notice. The chief constable of the county has lieen investigating the matter, and he finds that the practice of swindling the workhouse poor short weight ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1870
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 229 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OF TOTNES WORKHOUSE

... TOTNES WORKHOUSE. The ease of Robert Harris v. Wm. Lakemao, which an for damages, laid at £5OO. for slander alleged have been uttered by the defendant, who u a member the Totnas Board of Guardians, respecting the pUiol formerly porter of the Workhouse, was ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1870
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1573 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BUTTER FOR WORKHOUSES

... BUTTER FOR WORKHOUSES. Devonshire (lain - farmers are evidently expecting make harvest but of the war, or at least as the result of one of its effects—the prohibition of the export from France of butter and eggs. Householders Plymouth know to their cost ...

Published: Monday 12 December 1870
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 4462 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

INFANTS IN WORKHOUSES

... INFANTS IN WORKHOUSES. Sm, —I think that almost any system is preferable to the one of abutting up children in workhouses. My wife recently visited Cernish workhouse, and she was much pained at seeing so many infants and yeung children kept constantly ...

Published: Wednesday 04 May 1870
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 165 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STONEHOUSK WORKHOUSE

... STONRHO KB WORKHOUSE, Sta, Ths election of the Guardians of the Poor of Haat onse being close at hand, it is fitting time to call tho nt ention of the parishioners to the state of the work. house, and toask ‘* What will they do with it?” that the qnarters ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1874
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 749 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PLYMOUTH WORKHOUSE

... PLYMOUTH WORKHOUSE. Tbe annual task of making 522 persons h»t ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1874
Newspaper: Western Daily Mercury
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 348 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PLYMOUTH WORKHOUSE

... PLYMOUTH WORKHOUSE. vmufcl ta*k of making 622 peraona happy . taccewfally oarrlsd oat in the Plymouth Woik- and splendid dinner, conalatlng of roaat beef and w- partaken of by the inmatea amidst moat etj .yment. The dining-room waa decorated tery tratafal ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1874
Newspaper: Western Daily Mercury
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE MODEL WORKHOUSE

... THE MODEL WORKHOUSE Mr. Henry Longley, Poor-law Inspector, sat yesterday at the Totnee Workhouse, and inquired into the chargee preferred by the porter and cook against the matron, and also general discipline of the establishment. The Inspector mentioned ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1871
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 2254 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STIMULANTS IN WORKHOUSES

... stimulants in the workhouse of the Istter unton. The first letter is a request for {nformation by the clerk of St. George's Union, whetber it Is true that for several years past no stimalants have beea ased In the Wrexham Workhouse, but that milk and ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1876
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4525 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE INFIRMARIES

... WORKHOUSE INFIRMARIES. The Brentford Union is in a nice condition. Its guardians, or some of thorn at least, the other day objected to receive a letter of complaint from ah inmate of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, because she was mad-woman. ‘What do they think ...

Published: Friday 18 March 1870
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 131 | Page: 2 | Tags: none