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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... UPKEEP OF WORKHOUSE. The Improvement Committee recommended the adoption of the ...
... WORKHOUSES ESTASLISHED. In 1722 workhouses were first establi.heif by 9 George I. c. 7. Thev were under the care of uhurohowarden s and 'overseers and were intended a s ; test for destitution and to derive profit (ruin the labour of the poor. They resulted ...
... THE BALLYMENA WORKHOUSE. COST OF RENOVATIONS. The controversy regarding the cost of the renovations carried out by Ballymena Guardians to the workhouse buildings to accommodate Belfast Union patients reached a further stage to-day. In a letter to the ...
... WORKHOUSE GIFTS. Those who are domiciled in the workhouse were not forgotten, and the additional fare provided by the Board of Guardians was much appreciated. The master and matron, Mr. and Mrs. A. Arthur, were indefatigable in attending to their welfare ...
... The Workhouse Avenue. In connection with the proposed repairs to the avenue leading to the Workhouse the Clerk reported that Mr. Maxwell had told him that it would take about £l5 to carry out the repairs. excluding the placing of two channels down the ...
... WORKHOUSE WITH £400 * Looking Backwards FATAL XMAS FIRE AT BATH 25 YEARS AGO Bath, December 30th, 1916. The case of a man who after admission to the Bath Guardians' Institution, Frome Road House, proved to have £400 in his possession, was mentioned at ...
... WORKHOUSE COST COUNTY-AT-LARGE PROPOSAL. HOSPITAL REPAIRS. Reference to the proposal that Ballymena workhouse should be made a county charge w’as made at a meeting of the local Board of Guardians on Saturday. Mr. Samuel Watson, Co.C. (chairmanj presided ...
... ORIGIN OF WORKHOUSE At Bank Field Museum, on Saturday, Mr. W. J. Lee gave an address to the Halifax Antiquarian Society on local industrial life during the early 18th century, when Halifax was the most important town producing textiles in the West ...
... TOO MUCH LIKE WORKHOUSE STIGMA IN NAME OF 44 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ? Essex Public Assistance Committee meeting at Chelmsford on Wednesday agreed to a recommendation then Purposes Committee that no action be taken upon suggestion ot the Ministry ot Health ...
... Nursery. Sir Robert Adair’s proposal for a site for the Workhouse, consisting of six acres of ground, was accepted £6OO on August 3, 1840, and Mr. John Murphy’s tender for the erection of the Workhouse at £6,600 was also accepted, the work to be completed ...