... • In workhouse first meeting with my i husband was n strange circumstances. I was invited by the master of the Saddleworth (Yorkshire) workhouse to play the piano for a concert to be given by volunteer artists to the inmates. I had never spent Christmas ...

... WORKHOUSE FOR ■ASY One of the young masters at my school gets just over £5 10s. has to keep a family going,' he said. You see them living in basements and taking on all sorts of other contrivances to help make ends meet. It' is pitiable. Mr. W. F. Callander ...

... WORKHOUSE FARE The biggest ions to old people to-day is the workhouse. Forty years ago I was employed In Belmont Road workhouse (as it was then known) and I know what I am talking about. The old women received 2crt. of tea, %lb. sugar each week. The men ...

... friends advised us to go and live in the workhouse, to. get a better chance of a house. but. after serving eight years as a regular soldier. I think my husband is entitled to something other than the workhouse. I can never understand how some people can ...

... Wanted: Pictures of Workhouses ILLUSTRATIONS, broad - sheets and Press cuttings showing the hardships children had to endure in the era of the workhouses a century ago, are wanted by the Nelson Area Children’s Department. - Miss Maureen Aylward, area ...

... WORKHOUSE WOOD HILPS PATIENTS Some of the woodwOHL seen in this picture was fashioned from wooden forms used in a Manchester workhouse nearly 101 years ago. The workhouse became Springfield Hospital. Crumpsall, and the present-day patients there have ...

... dole. Or stood outside the workhouse door, The mean means test, the hunger much. •When unemployed were one The empty grate and larder too. This was the lot of more than But surely this nothing new. just the honest workers’ due. This was Britain in her ...

... It's back to workhouse -2 families living there PEARS of a return to the workhouse system, through cases where families had been allowed to live in a corporation 'institution, were expressed at Bolton Children's Committee , to-day. , Councillor F ...

... My best Christmas story PO Red shawls! Too bright for the workhouse , From Mrs. Norah Renshaw, BUILIPER PRIZES 4-4,, tham Hall Farm, Clay Lane -- :72- 4 ingway, Cheshire. .7 - -, FOR the best Christmas memories received from - - 2- - _-' was Christmas ...

... IJawbone find I T S a human . jawbone found L near the s ite of a workhouse the remains of a victim of a workhouse master more than 100 years ago? Residents in select Altrincham Road. Wilmslow, are asking this. The jawbone was handed to the police by ...

... rFREE HOME CONTEST? )£20 INTO WORKHOUSE six styles of j Summer dresses T I HIS week in the “Evening: Chronicle” FREE HOME CONTEST we invite you to judge six styles of Summer dresses with £20 as the prize The models are appearing: each day until Saturday ...

... PERIODICALS and books A thankfully received for the inmates of the Burnley Union Workhouse reads the lettering on a box Burnley Market Hall. But Where's the workhouse? Workhouses and Institutions, we thought, went out with the new social legislation in 1948 ...