... ATTACK ON THE WORKHOUSE AT STOCKPORT.” ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO : REPRODUCTIONS FROM THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS OF AUGUST 20. 1842. In August 1842 Chartism, a revolutionary democratic agitation, came to a head in a series of strikes and serious riots. They ...

... TO THE WORKHOUSE! LOCAL authority should use the utmost urgency in tackling the distressing matter of the man without a home. While the housing shortage continues it may, in difficult circumstances, be necessary to accommodate people in a public institution ...

... In the Workhouse So thousands of these healthy, virile families found themselves turned out of their rooms on health grounds and flung Into the workhouse. Wives were torn from husbands. husbands from children, Furniture WAS stacked high in stables to ...

... TO THE WORKHOUSE! L°c AL authority should use the utmost urgency in tackling the distressing matter of the man without a home. While the housing shortage continues it may, in difficult circumstances, be neo.essary to accommodate people in a public i ...

... WORKHOUSE IN 1723 Councillor Mrs. Cockbuin mentioned a number Chelsea charities, and traced the parish workhouse back to 1723. Then, it became evident, one was necessary in Chelsea. In 1727, the Vestry agreed that the churchwardens the pariah “be empowered ...

... Ntegourate (Mr. -Iran Snell) placed hint on probation for 12 months with a condition to reside in the workhouse. and warned nini that if he left the workhouse during that period he would get months' hard labour. Elderly Woman Killed By Lorry verdict of accidental ...

... This is the way to the workhouse WHEN you group forecasts by taking the favourite or the second favourite with the Field, it's only because you are out to boost the odds in your favour. Many punters write me saying that they reduce their investments by ...

... Today in the Workhouse Casual ward attendant at Lambeth : I said to this young man, Get out of bed.—Clerk of the court (Mr. Stanley French): What did he say?-- Witness: He said, Not until my clothes have been cleaned and pressed. ...

... IDEA OF THE WORKHOUSE In support of the motion, Mr. Champ., said that they wanted to get away from thof idea of the workhouse. Mr. C. W. Speirs regretted that the chairman of the Finance Committee supported the change, and he said they were doing far ...

... IN WORKHOUSE must say I had a very happy stay in the workhouse, Alderman Rowe said. From Swaftleld Road I went to the River Thames rormai.lon and is is as an ' ex-river rat' that I regard myself because I was I there longer than I was on the l land ...

... HEADING FOR THE WORKHOUSE ? My fight for reason, enlightenment and a new creed is as important in its way as the other struggle. Millions of people in this country are steeped in ignorance and superstition. Things are worse still abroad. Only a drastic ...

... PENSIONERS DRIVEN TO THE ‘WORKHOUSE’ vvors that lam. latch loots that won't I t, and sewing tlie thread. machine that break A house is first of all roof and hearth. But it is also a machine, worked the house- iin>l for victory. That This is no time for ...