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THE PASSING OF THE WORKHOUSE

... THE PASSING OF THE WORKHOUSE ►THE old order has at last 1. cha iged, the workhouse is no more. said the Chairman (Alderman D. B. Lewis, Llandebie) when presenting the first annual estimates for welfare services at yesterday's meeting of Carmarthenshire ...

Published: Thursday 16 December 1948
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 252 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Tried Every Workhouse

... Tried Every Workhouse It is Dafydd Jones's boast that when he first took to the road he slept in every workhouse in Wales, and many are the interesting tales he can tell of the strange characters he met in those institutions. H;re is the song: Britons ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 376 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

JUST LIKE 'THE OLD WORKHOUSE

... JUST LIKE 'THE OLD WORKHOUSE The Mayor (Coun. Claude !Menneld) said the Dowleis Police Station was so bar , it was Prat the old Workhouse at a meeting of the Watch Comcnittes. Ridging the question f the equipment at the staten the Mayor (who presided ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1949
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 290 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE LAD WHIG 'UAW 000 D

... WORKHOUSE LAD WHIG 000 D. Thum a number of the Edmonton (Lon. ion) Board of Guardians: 1 'vas ;n the tWardian4' alcc ~.4e day when a young gentleman with kid gloves and patent boots and a silver-mounted vudking stick came in and inquired about • aorta= ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1940
Newspaper: Rhos Herald
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: Illustrated | Words: 94 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WORKHOUSE (NOW LLUESTY) BY COL. J. LL. WILLIAMS

... THE WORKHOUSE (NOW LLUESTY) BY COL. J. LL. WILLIAMS. I cannot let this opportunity without a few memories of what was known to me as The Workhouse As a Junior clerk in the office of the Clerk to the Guardians. I used to go twice or thrice a week to the ...

Published: Friday 30 July 1943
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE LAD _WPia 4'l • b GOOD

... WORKHOUSE LAD 4'l • b GOOD. Then a member of the Edmonton (Lon;; I was in the offlee one when n young gentleman with kid qloreo and patent boots and a SiliVer-ler,:ntect walking stick came in and inquired a certain girl in the worhottse school. Ps ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1940
Newspaper: Rhos Herald
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

6 Herald of Wales Saturday March 13 THE WORKHOUSE OWH FILM SHOW! of Uandebie and District lustitute-nany of them in

... 6 Herald of Wales Saturday March 13 THE WORKHOUSE OWH FILM SHOW! of Uandebie and District lustitute-nany of them in traditional costumes dating yearswho this gave St David's concert - i By HARRY DAVIES rpHANKS to Messrs Jim Griffiths and Tom King Llanelli’s ...

Published: Saturday 13 March 1948
Newspaper: Herald of Wales
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PUGH OF PENRHYN

... Meredith; and an informative acccount of The Workhouses of Caernarvonshire (1760-1914), by Cledwyn Flynn-Hughes. The lastnamed, a very human document, evidences the early opposition and repugnance to workhouse in Caernarvonshire and offers some interesting ...

Published: Thursday 30 January 1947
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GEN. ALEXANDER

... appease the C. 1.0. Parc Gwyllt AS it took a long time to get rid of the Poor Law we knew it, [and of such titles the workhouse and the workhouse infirmary, the delay in dealing with the nomenjclature lunatic asylums in the Erovinces may be pardonable, ondon ...

Published: Tuesday 08 September 1942
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Commentarp

... humanitarian measure. Workhouses !will be abolished, and no one will regret the passing of a name so odious and which has so many unsavoury associations with the less thlightened periods of history. The stigma of the workhouse was always a dreaded fear ...

Published: Friday 28 November 1947
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 247 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

h -lEleetti.p Conunentarp

... humanitarian measure. Workhouses will be abolished, and no one will regret the passing of a name so odious and which has so many unsavoury associations with the less .olbghtened periods of history. The stigma of the workhouse was always a dreaded fear ...

Published: Friday 28 November 1947
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 6 | Tags: none