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T4IKE all young things, the surplus energy of gun puppies is expended in play, yet at three to four months

... British Pathe of Lady Gregory's The Workhouse Ward, in London this week. They are Eileen Crowe. Michael Dolan. and Harry Brogan. With them will be Ria Mooney. the Abbey Producer. It is understood that The Workhouse Ward is the first of a number of ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1950
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 691 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MOTOR BUS WAS 'NOVELTY'

... G. R Beresiordl was presented with a silver -1 mounted ebony walking-atick and a set of books. An Increase in the Lynn workhouse Master's salary was refused by Lynn Board of Guardians. Fit tc aat panahioners received gifts of beef and rabbits from the ...

Published: Tuesday 10 January 1950
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NOTES IN THE WEST

... whil'l working for his father (a ston'l mason), fell from the top of a hi«# ladder. From that time he wasston* deaf, became a workhouse boy, but rose to be a scholar, a world-wld* traveller, a renowned author, and the foremost popular educator otl his generation ...

Published: Tuesday 10 January 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 887 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

for the last week or so doing a busy round of all the shows and seeing (and hearing) what is

... chosen because of the immense prestige which, in its early years, the Abbey Theatre had across the Atlantic. Lady Gregory's Workhouse Ward will be the first filmed. The rest of the list is not chosen yet, but will come from the Abbey favourites. Work is ...

Published: Tuesday 10 January 1950
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 442 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A Strange Family

... stirring occasion when the England team was defeated by the local cricket XI.; of mine host who was also keeper of the local workhouse; of the days when vaccinations were carried out in country inns. He tells of some of the whimsical names of the taverns—The ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1950
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1639 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ON THE SQUARE

... Poorhouse days PHE Old General was a harmless zany. He lived with his mother until her death when he was placed in the workhouse. He was roundshouldered and about four feet nine in height. His garb during his latter years was the grey.of the poorhousc ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1950
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1193 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sir, —On Saturday I was present at the final performance, of Spa Larks, which, would sUggest, is the best

... people of Britain at Christmas, 1920, stated: Between 250 and 350 of the unemployed of Camberwell will march to Camberwell Workhouse and claim admission as inmates. advert in the Glasgow Press of December 21, 1922, appealed for a Christian volunteer force ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1950
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2410 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MORE BETWEEN-THEWARS HISTORY

... power—fourpence an hour in some cases to an ex!Serviceman. A widow of 30 years tried to get a pension—she was l oitered the workhouse if her ,'daughter /with seven children .undar 13) could not keep her. The .daughter's husband was getting fleas than C 2 ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Planners' paradise

... a says it then it becomes a wisecrack. The Conservative Party has no: inherited the Bumble mind and does not visualise a workhouse state, full of well-led but well-managed paupers. This is the Sociaist concept and the planners' paradise. The Idea propagated ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Fulham Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEATH QUIZ

... Welshman made a tour through Wales to preach the Third Crusade. Who guided them across the Neath river? 3. These Coalworks and Workhouses do employ great numbers of Men. Women and Children, to whom several thousand Pounds are paid every Year, which circulates ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 280 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Charlie Chaplin

... shoes, also .hers, also made of green velvet. These the elder boy, Syd, used to put on to fetch some free soup from the workhouse. Whenever they heard the barrel organ play, the two boys dashed bare-footed into the street to dance beside it and pick up ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Chelmsford Chronicle
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOSPITAL STAFF DANCE

... Abbey Theatre Company who will take part in a television production by Associated British Pathe of Lady Gregory's The Workhouse Ward. in London. have arrived back in Dublin after completion or preliminary shots. The players were Eileen Crowe. Michael ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 7 | Tags: none