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KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO THE NEWMARKET WORKHOUSE

... KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO THE NEWMARKET WORKHOUSE King Edward visited the Newmarket Union Workhouse the other day and wrote a testimonial on its merits, which we reproduce above. The Standard relates the following incident in connection with his Majesty's ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1904
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 158 | Page: 1 | Tags: Photographs 

Winter in the Workhouse: The Penalty of London's Greatness

... London's Greatness Thousands of poor Londoners will spend their Christmas in the workhouse, and indeed many will think themselves lucky to spend it there, for the workhouses have more applicants than they can find room for. Those unfortunates who fail to ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1907
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PLIGHT OF OUR. WAR-WORN VETERANS: Their Rescue from the Workhouse

... Mutiny veterans in Hyde Park I found to my regret that no small number of them had come up from the workhouse, and at the end of the day had only the workhouse to look forward to for the remainder of their lives. A strong feeling has been aroused in many quarters ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 531 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... object of obtaining cinematograph records of Vesuvius. A hunt meet at Chertsey Workhouse. Last week Mr. J. Hutchinson Driver took his pack of harriers to the Chertsey Workhouse, and is here seen serving out presents to the inmates. ...

The Catler pre=views: OLIVER TWIST AS A FILM

... Please, sir, I want some more. The scene in the workhouse, which Dickens drew with such ironic vividness and indignation, shoivs the waif Oliver pleading for more gruel from the stony-hearted workhouse master (Kenneth Downy) Don't Artful Dot picturesqu ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 289 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

STARS OF TWO FILMS NOW SHOWING, ONE TO COME

... eventually CHARLES DICKENS' 44 Oliver Twist, in case you don't know it, is briefly, the story of a foundling born in a workhouse. Apprenticed t to an undertaker, he runs away to London, becomes involved with the notorious Fagin and his gang of young ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... for DECIDING TO LIVE CHRISTMAS DAY in the workhouse. A feature of his plan for a six weeks' tramp, with an allowance of 2s. 6d. a day for all expenses, was his determination to spend Christmas Day in the Workhouse. PROFESSOR H. E. ARMSTRONG, F.R.S. for ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 340 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

Some Social and Other Happenings of the Week

... Chinese Girl Found Straying in 1 a London She was found wandering: about in Kensington Gardens jS and was taken to Kensington Workhouse, where she awaited identification The German Crown Prince's Hunting Tour in East Prussia Showing the Crown Prince and Princess ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Up Guardians, And At 'Em!: Bumble on his Mettle

... of the Poor Law Commission, over which the Rt. Hon. Lord George Hamilton so ably presided recommending the abolition of workhouses (and Guardians), has been hailed with universal plaudits. The work house was practically our only surviving relic of the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 496 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs