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... appeared daily offering loans from £5 to £5000 to “respectable householders” If you had neither money nor job there was the work-house and several Midland authorities (including Stratford) were spending noticed young f have crown: otherwise will fresh hard ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2441 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

I REMEMBER BY EVENING NEWS READERS 'The dungeon on wheels'

... get a house in any street. People in those days were always having to sell their homes and take their families into the workhouse. There the husband was let out early every morning to look for work, then bring his family out again to start afresh—if he ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 896 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Passing Hour

... The Passing Hour Antrim Union Workhouse liqht eROGRAMRSC (i satai.i Mt.im ) Medical Officer wanted, at salary a m -Ne s »1» _ Homew.v - per annum. v* V cholcp. lO.O—riolsoti Kiras lorsan*. The Bangor TrlMio District J® Enfllsh. 10.45—King Piuairr -Wy ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1950
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 689 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

? n&emor\> Now that Christmas 1949 is over, let us turn back the pages of the Thanet Advertiser and Pullen’s

... Smackboys’ Home and the Fillet o? Turbot.‘ldmJl style, “^iS ROyal ßr S a a ,seT “'in °'tSl Chateau Potatoes st y le In Mlnster Workhouse, as Stuffed Turkev with Chestnuts 11 was known then - the P au ers Stuffed Turkey With Chestnuts en oycd thelr Christmas ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1950
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 833 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... being rushed into shape the municipality was opening big electric light works buying up the tramways planning a big new work-house and cemetery and flirt FOR TOWN BROADWAY (AB C) Neagle M Wilding In Mayfair (U)l CROWN (HDM) Cont 60 Carol Marsh HELTER ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: Manchester Evening Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2767 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHEN THE BELLS RANG OUT FOR 1900

... morning looking tired, cold and hungry, three Little Babes in the Wood' who slept under trees and had no shelter but the workhouse? TOWARDS TOMORROW Sixty years after the people of England first cried over Oliver Twist, there was hardly a village that ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1516 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF

... the Chamber of Trade. MR. J. E. ALEXANDER, Superintena- ent of Knaresborough Hospital and former Master of Knaresborough Workhouse, has died, aged 60. THE REV. B. A. RAMSKER, Vicar of St. John’s, Park, Sheffield, and for- Vicar of Drax, has been merly ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WOMAN J 1 'iJl V Leedsm It

... the Onamber of Trade. MR. J. E. ALEXANDER, Superintend- ent of Knaresborough Hospital and former Master of Knaresborough Workhouse, has died, aged 60. THE REV. B. A. RAMSKER, Vicar of St. John’s, Park, Sheffield, and for- merly Vicar of Drax, has been ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Belfast of

... met every Thursday at 10-30 a.m They numbered ten and their engineer was William Allen. The Board of Guardians met at the Workhouse cn the Lisburn Road every Wednesday at 11 a.m there being 22 elected and 22 ex-officio Guardians Their medical adviser was ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 852 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHEPTON MALLET

... SHEPTON MALLET. Entertainment at Workhouse.— The throughly enjoyable treat which the inmates had at the Workhouse, on Monday evening last, by the kindness of the guardians and friends, was on the lines of those which prevailed some ten or twelve years ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Shepton Mallet Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 63 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Eight Tynemouth councillors due to seek re-election

... testimonials which were given distinguished men to young Bramwell. who was (or some time medical officer at the old Shields Workhouse. One of these testimonials was from Sir James Sim peon, the man who first made use chloroform an anaesthetic. Then there ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Country’s Capital

... supplementary allowances have also been added. 1 admit very frankly that this still leaves many with a hard struggle, but the workhouse no longer beckons them. The House is a thing of the past. The less than 324,000 unemployed receive more considerate treatment ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Faversham News
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 594 | Page: 2 | Tags: none