IN WORKHOUSE

... IN WORKHOUSE Mrs. Roberts said she and her family had lived at Rhyl for sixteen years. At one time they had a house with one room up and one down. They had to leave when the family became too large. Her husband worked at Abergele. and lived with their ...

Published: Monday 29 August 1949
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 327 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Strabane Hospital Committee . have appointed a sub-committee to decide u-hieh parts of the building! behind the present boardroom, l stated to he the only remaining part of the original workhouse building will he demolished. TMn'• nothing . ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1949
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 45 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

This is the way to the workhouse

... 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 ...

Published: Sunday 31 July 1949
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 470 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE MEMORIES

... WORKHOUSE MEMORIES. Mr. Watson went on to sav that under the Irish Poor Relief Acts of 1838 workhouses were built, one of which was at Larne. These institutions were for the housing of paupers, destitute and diseased. Many of them were dreadful places ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1949
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SENT TO WORKHOUSE

... SENT TO WORKHOUSE He saw a policeman and told him in broken Fnglish that he had _no money and nowhere to sleep. The policeman sent him 10 the workkouse, whare he slept. Next morning the Ministry” of Labour offered him a job, but he could not produce any ...

St. Day Workhouse

... St. Day Workhouse In the West Regional programme of the 8.8.C. on Tuesday evening Mr. Richard R. Blewett (St. Day) gave a talk about the workhouse at St). Day in the early nineteenth century, telling, among , other matters, of the food the inmates ate ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1949
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE HORROR OF IRISH : WORKHOUSES

... THE HORROR OF IRISH : WORKHOUSES Htt Honourable and Rev. 8. O. Ootaonie, a Waned and decent vMted the western »e aboard thU country In MM and MM and awre linwiarinni In “The Ttmea what saw and what heard and what felt, He saw moehThe heard more and felt ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1949
Newspaper: Leinster Leader
County: Kildare, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE ONLY PLACE AT

... WORKHOUSE ONLY PLACE AT PRE SENT In reply to a question from Mr. McAteer (Nat., Mid-Derry) in the Huuse of Commons, Captain O'Neill, Parliamentary Secretary to :he Nl:nistry of Health and Local Government, said that he deplored as much as anyone the lack ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1949
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 2 | 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

Kept Local Preachers Out of Workhouses

... about through the discovery that a local preacher was living as an inmate of workhouse. On Sundays he would leave the workhouse. go to a friend's house, change from his workhouse corduroys into ordinary suit and then walk sevsral miles to take services. ...

NO WORKHOUSE ATMOSPHERE' IN COUNTY NOW

... NO WORKHOUSE ATMOSPHERE' IN COUNTY NOW The old atmosphere of the workhouse has been completely eradicated, said Aid. R. E. Westaway, chairman of the County Welfare Committee yesterday when reviewing the committee's work. The responsibility then (last ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1949
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

75 YEARS AGO At the Workhouse

... 75 YEARS AGO At the Workhouse From the Herald of 13th Feb., 1874 ¢« Readings at the Workhouse [Shipston-on-Stour].—The second of a series of three entertainments took place on Wednesday evening, the 4th inst., in the dining hall connected with this e ...

Published: Friday 11 February 1949
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 3 | Tags: none