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... AT THE WORKHOUSE On Christmas Day the inmates of the Wharfedale Union Workhouse. about one hundred in number, sat down excellent dinner of roast beef, plum pudding etc., and for once in a wav the usual regulations as to quantity were set aside and the ...
... Born at the workhouse Harding tells his story well, without undue modesty or brusque selfassertion. He was born.in 1907 at the Union Workhouse, Hereford, but not poverty: his father was the master and his mother the matron. In he was treated as Important ...
... In and out of workhouse The lined lace the 77-year-old woman who only bad Is. 6d. left when she had paid for bare necessities out of her 335. weekly pension and allowances, broke into smiles when she was presented with £1 from the moneysent the Hull reader ...
... WORKHOUSE OPPOSED The history of the building of the Todmorden workhouse shows, too, that Todmorden residents fought strenuously to avoid having their * paupers —the aged, the infirm and the unemplovable — housed under their noses or on the hillside ...
... Way to the workhouse? LEEDS reader passes on to me the following scrap conversation which .-he overheard while waiting in a tram (iueue behind a young man and old couple. You see. granddad. said the young man, there's many of in the unions nowadays ...
... FUTURE WORKHOUSES? To a questioner who asked: Are you afraid of the past? Mr. Taylor replied: We have a better record than any other party in the matter of social reform. What sort of houses are you going to build—workhouses? shouted a woman. ...
... Better in workhouse For what reply, short of the bludgeon of its small majority, could the Government give to Captain Crookshank's attack? We have dropped from a pre-war average of 260 z. of meat per head per week to some soz. Even the workhouse ration in ...
... The old U.S. workhouse The Witch Diggers. by Jessamyn West (Heinemann. Os.). To the Castle, by Paul Fox (411 en. us. 6d.(. Ways and Means, by Henry Cecil (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d.t. Tales of Adventure, by Geoffrey Household (Joseph. 12s. -6(1.). A POPULAR ...
... Workhouses are going: Dr. Edith Dr. Edith Summer/kill. Minister of National Insurance. addressed old-age pensioners at Fulham Broadway last night. One roan told her that since the increases were granted the cost of living had gone up by nearly and old ...
... From Workhouse to Hospital—to Seaside The announcement, made last week. that some 150 patients at Stansfield View Hospital for Mental Defectives are to be taken for a week's holiday to a Skegness holiday camp. focusses attention on a lecal hospital where ...
... CHILDREN & AGED SHARE WORKHOUSE Back to Dickens-vm. OFFICIAL l-rom Our York Staff Shortage of accommodation for homeless children in York is acute that 18 of them—l 3 boys and five girls—are housed with aged people In the 200-year-old workhouse now known The ...
... IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE—BUT THEY ENJOYED THEIR CHRISTMAS PUDDING Years Ago (t'l’oiu our Issue Dee. Christinas was celebrated generous fashion Tuesday at the North Blerley Union Workhouse at Clayton, and the keen wind that swept the exposed ...