... had been worried severe illness of his wife and daughter, and on account of his financial situation his wife was now in a workhouse and his daughter was with her grandmother. Mr. Ackner said Lamplough became an honorary secretary for the Society hoping ...

... that incumbency for eight years. During that time he was chaplain the Royal Artillery camp at Okehampton and of Okehampton Workhouse. From 1906 to 1908 he was rural dean of Okehampton. In the latter year he became vicar of Paignton-with-Marldon. Leaving ...

... but spent £1 on groceries and the 6s was mixed up with her husband's wages. She thought Mr. Madge would be put into the workhouse, and that the authorities would have the money. She did not take the money to rob him, but thought it would come in to buy ...

... have a chance of seeing at the Odeon. Exeter, where is showing all next week. Everyone knows the celebrated story of the workhouse boy who had the audacity to ask for more, and -nearly petrified everyone who heard his meek request. John Howard Davies ...

... , which he considered better suited to the nature of their work. Mr. P. F. Rowsell suggested that changing of the name Workhouse to Public Assistance Institution had not altered the character of the place in any way. Mr. F. G. Avant-Washington felt there ...

... Formerly it was not unusual to tell some, not all, applicants for relief that they could have orders for admission to the workhouse. This procedure was due, as a rule, to a desire to test applicants' real needs rather than to lack of sympathy. There was ...

... sweet. Shakespeare was right. If he had lived in these days* he would have found that any place, once associated with workhouse'! or public institution, no matter how much disguised by name, remained abhorrent to many people. The repugnance is not ...

... poor widows whose income docs not exceed £50 per annum, and who might otherwise be compelled to end their days in the union workhouse or other like institution, for the upkeep of same and paying £100 per annum to each, resident. Any remaining income to be ...

... WHERE ARE the houses?; Newton Woman ants To Know her room at Newton Abbot's former workhouse now l yled the Infirmary —Mrs. ! Wilcox wrote, in a neat Pencilled hand on a sheet of fool- Paper, this letter to Mr. njfred Robens, Parliamentary e cretary ...

... from Skitch's Corner side. The top of Union-hill had been improved tremendously by the incorporation of part of the old workhouse ground the roadway, and would not be a lot less dangerous for cars going down. If the new road was widened and proper footpath ...

... various purposes. Some years ago there was a lot of controversy about the practice of describing Poorlaw Institutions as Workhouses. The use of the latter word is now abandoned. But why did no one suggest that almoners should be substituted for reliev ...

... their pay ? Apparently, about Is. per week for married couples; 2s. for a family. ' But most of the poor had to accept the Workhouse or nothing in those days, and indoor maintenance had feeding compensations compared with outdoor freedom on the pay. even ...