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THE WORKHOUSE

... THE WORKHOUSE. One of the chief methods of deterring the people from using the Poor Law has been the workhouse. Life in a workhouse is always horrible, and, although something has been done in recent years to humanise the administration, they are still ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1913
Newspaper: Justice
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Salary €2O per annum, rising by annual increments of €1 each to £26 per annum, with board. lodging, washing, and uniform. Previous experience preferred. Age 18 years to 24 vears. LAUNDRY MACHINE MAN AT THE WORKHOUSE Salary 235. per week, rising ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1912
Newspaper: Eastern Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IN THE WORKHOUSE

... IN THE WORKHOUSE. Our poor neighbours in the Big House at Farnborough fared generously in celebration of that national festival in which all Englishmen—the world overmake common. But the inmates of our casual wards would accept none of this hospitality ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1914
Newspaper: Beckenham Journal
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 541 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AT THE WORKHOUSE

... AT THE WORKHOUSE The observance of the great event by the Brentford Guardians was confined to the people in the workhouse and infirmary. The children are to be taken into the country for three weeks, and th'Ls_is to be regarded as their festival. The ...

Published: Friday 30 June 1911
Newspaper: Chiswick Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

VIOLENCE IN THE WORKHOUSE

... VIOLENCE IN THE WORKHOUSE Henry Kitchen, 61, borsekeeper, of the Marylebone Workhouse, was eharged assaultiag Robert Noakes, a fellow inmate of the 'house. The prosecutor, an elderly man, stated that he was about to sit down by the side of the prisoner ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1913
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 121 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Workhouse

... The Workhouse. A letter was read from the Local Government Board stating that the Board had .0 objection to tue Workhouse being named Staines Union Institution, but that the name Workhouse would have to be retained for legal .purposes.—They also wrote ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1914
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 153 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE WORKHOUSE FOR HEROES

... THE WORKHOUSE FOR HEROES While the politicians and some Labour leaders are crying for move and more production, stories of gvoto hardship due first lack of work and then to Jock of boosts continue reach from all ports the couatry. Men who fought for England ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1919
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 374 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IN THE WORKHOUSE

... IN THE WORKHOUSE. Sophia Kean, 19, was charged, before Mr. Bros at Clerkenwell, as a refractory pauper, and with assauiting Martha Card, another pauper inmate. Mr. Ricke:ts prosecuted for the St. Pancras Guardian:. He said Kean had been an inmate of the ...

IN THE WORKHOUSES

... IN THE WORKHOUSES. GORDON ROAD WORKHOUSE. One of the most noticeable points at Gordonroad Workhouse was the absence of young, able-bodied men and women, and we shoulu say that the average age of the itmates was somewhere about 60. For all that, they had ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1913
Newspaper: South London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE. A dries and dame war bead Fels lash. Aiwer those present were Counrillor V- 0. 0. hex, MT.. Bax, C. Newbery. J.P., C. 1). J. J. &alder and Mt.. & Mapper, Miens J. L. Morton, F. C. P. V. N. J. Q U. Kerslake, & J. 0. Buds= W. Barber, and H. ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1914
Newspaper: Woolwich Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE CHAPEL. The Chaplain, the Rev. C. 8. M. Read, made feeling reference to the death of the King during the course of his sermon at the Workhouse Chapel on Sunday, the speaker enlarging upon his late Majesty's good work in the cause of peace. The ...

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE. Salary £26 per annum, rising by annual increments of £1 each to £3O, with board, Lodging, Washing and Uniform. Previous experience indispensible. Age 25 years to 35 years. Applications must be made on forms to be obtained from me, and will ...