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... century the conditions in some workhouses were appalling. In 1807 the Rev. James Webster, a Justice of the Peace, inspected the parish workhouse at Lidlington, which had formerly been the pest-house. The said parish workhouse is not fit for the habitation ...
... Workhouse The former Dunstable Workhouse in High Street South. It closed in 1836 when it was amalgamated with Luton. The row of buildings is now partly occupied by Dunstable Lock and Safe company. Grove House, built in 1750 as the Duke of Bedford The ...
... Christmas in the workhouse WHEN talki about Christmases past, most folks look shocked when I tell them that I once spent Christmas Day in the workhouse, but this was one of my most memorable Christmases. I was invited to spend Christmas Day with my b ...
... establishment of Parish Workhouses in Biggleswade and the surrounding DO 0 The passing of the Poor Law An?endment Act in 1834 brought the. Union Workhouses into being of which The Limes in London Road was an enm&l;l The Parish Workhouses passed into private ...
... “School looks like Victorian workhouse’ says governor Holmemead School, Bigglesvah.isi.nadq:lorfi state and not fit for young children to be educated in, said Mr Vic Brunt, at the school governors’ meeting on Tuesday. Mr Brunt and Mr Richard Bennett visited ...
... LETTERS Christmas Day in the workhouse Many of your readers will recall the legendary recommendation made one Christmas Day in the Workhouse, “when up spake one old pauper, his face as bold as brass”, in response to the Workhouse Master’s offer of Christmas ...
... ONLY ONE THATCHED COTTAGE AT OAKLEY Workhouse that Became Homes for Two Families . In the “good old days”, when villages really were villages and their completely rural charm had not been spoiled by ribbon development, the High Street at Oakley was lined ...
... 'IN the ’Eighties smallpox was brought into the town by a tramp in the workhouse and the inhabitants went about in fear and trembling of catching the disease. ; People were afraid toreceive change in the shops, and shopkeepers afraid to take money from ...
... 22 LutonBedfordshire on Sunday March 3 1996 FITNESS be FUN at Workhouse Gym! AEROBICS Great Exercise for tummies & thighs Beginners welcome Tel Christine (RSA) Biggleswade 01767 601807 tor any details PjSR MOIWH 23A HIGH STREET NORTH DUNSTABLE BEDS TEL: ...
... s in Lunacy of a visit made to the workhouse on the 15th ultimo by Mr. Frere one of the visiting commissionrs. The report was as follows:— “I found three men and six women on the list of imbeciles in this Workhouse. One of the patients is not legally ...
... the workhouse children did not belong to the parish and it could hardly be expected that they should be admitted at the same rates as the children belonging to the parish. The Rev. C. E. Haslam considered that it would be a benefit to the workhouse children ...
... MEAT ON THREE DAYS In the parish the prosperous ne«txented the inns, and the workhouse waited for those who failed. In 1762 the Overseers farmed out the workhouse in the north end of Woburn to & contractor. and there is an agreement which gives us the ...