... Visitor : Say, what's it going hack for 7 Aren’t they satisfied with it A vote taken among the inmates of Barnet (Herts) Workhouse whether they required ” night-shirts resulted 120 Baying “no” and only eight saying •‘ycß. ...

... and polish with a soft dean doth. The death has taken place in Oldhasn Workhouse, where she was the pet of the institution, of Mary Ann Turner, aged 109. She had been in the workhouse nine years, and her health was f airly good until a week ago. _ - ••• ...

... pursuing h* itinerary, legging, stedfing, scourging the community with infectious dkeaee, taxing for his csisteuoe. whether in workhouse in prawn, and st all attempts to drive him off the road, long as a credulous public can Ik- moved by piteous tales made to ...

... civilisation. I mean—an— He began to feel frightened. The bulhouse is the school work of civ— A smile could be felt. The workhouse is the bulschool of— He was evidently twisted. The schoolbul is the housework— An audihle snigger spread over the audience ...

... from Carlisle on Monday. Nine persons were killed and sewn-al 'injured. Old Ma 7 who was the first baby born in Dorking Workhouse when it was combleted in 1841, has just celebrated her 85th irthday in the institution. Except for a short period she has ...

... cinema shows, games, and an occasional broadcast programme. Improvements are also being made in the tramp wards of the workhouses. The inmates are to have a brighter Sundae, for no casuals are discharged on that day, and in some of these institutions ...

... These people remember that Public) Assistance was in their life time the bated Poor Law and that institutions were the workhouse and there is a reluctance to take advantage of the new facilities. A second re-christening may bury the Poor Law tnadition ...

... superstitious practices is that of putting a pin, in for people when you wish them harm. A woman who died in a Somersetahire workhouse about thirty years age was found to be wearing a heartshaped pad stuek over the piny. She was fully believed to have the ...

... visable shining with a dull copper-coloured light. Thirsday Although I am not disposed to maintain that being born in a workhouse is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in ...

... fiot-I man when farmers and shopkeepers break- 1 fasted on loaves, the very sight of which would raise a riot in a Omodern workhouse : when men died faster in the pure country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our 'towns, and when men ...

... question of the electrification of the main line railway systems of Great Britain. Inmates of the Hamilton (Lanarkshire) Workhouse have been on strike 3 times this year. Their latest demand was for a heating stove in the wood-shed. and other agitations ...

... came over every minute and dropped bombs and there was considerable* damage to cottage property ; some bombs fell near a workhouse and others in a cemetery. Enemy planes were also reported over other parts of England, but the damage and casualties were ...