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The Southowram Workhouse

... assembled 0 Order held at the Workhouse on the Ist and Agree to take & provide a March 1781. pursuant to Notice & House which shall be convenient Advertisement for chusing a for a School and for a Muter to Master of the Workhouse. Richard reside in at the ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1961
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1038 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Southowram Workhouse

... The Southowram Workhouse By ARTHUR PORRITT PART IV be which this shilling forfeit to be put.. which appear in an oddly- On August 12th. 1756 it WU spelt entry made at the meeting •rdered?: • That a Daily Register-on March 2nd that year. 1758. It of ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1961
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1529 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Southowram Workhouse

... The Southowram Workhouse By ARTHUR PORRITT I Jeremy Lister not constituting ant ,Part of the Meeting on the 7th .october. 1777. may be sufficiently filg v i o ured y ' shown by applying to the persons m in e ott adyearhspre usl themselves. Jeremy Lister ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1961
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1647 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Southowram Workhouse By ARTHUR PORRITT

... The Southowram Workhouse By ARTHUR PORRITT i PART VIII house during the 72 years this We find this in the second year, record covers. As the 1800 s on September 9, 176 4 : Fortinatus advanced the number apprenticed hian was out out an apprentice to ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1961
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Southowram Workhouse By ARTHUR PORRITT

... through the Workhouse. The Skircoat Overseer (then another Mr. John Lister) was required to pay to the Southowram Overseer. Mr. Samuel Hamerton. Si.. being that sum overpaid in June last for 3 Persons above the number then In the Workhouse. I --- Wet-; ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1961
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 983 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Grim corridor sole reminder of workhouse days

... of any size from those old cells almost in the clays when they workhouse days that is left in the were in use. In fad each has a hospital. peephole window fitted for the use of the Workhouse Master that was. Improvements the Labour Master or the Tramp- ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1957
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1783 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Magistrate condemns council home LIKE DICKENS WORKHOUSE

... Magistrate condemns council home LIKE DICKENS WORKHOUSE A prisoner in Horneld Prison Bristol. told a visiting magistrate that his wife and their two-weekold baby in a Bristol Corporation home were - worse off than I am. The magistrate, Mr. Edgar Bowden ...

Published: Monday 28 December 1959
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OP SOCIETY PAPERS The Southowram Workhouse BY ARTHUR PORRITT

... Southowram Workhouse BY ARTHUR PORRITT Workhouse PART II the Hands of the The Southowram Trustees belonging to each Town. , catered also for Skircoat, tow ns hi p , Here we have the first reference to and at all the meeting work done in the Workhouse.) there ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1961
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 601 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Where the workhouse used to be is the spot to quench misgiving. Stroll there sometime to be free of the

... Where the workhouse used to be is the spot to quench misgiving. Stroll there sometime to be free of the strain of modem living. Sick of struggling with money? Wages low and prices dear? Cross over. Gone for good. How funny to think a pawnshop once stood ...

Published: Monday 18 July 1955
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 141 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HALIFAX ANTIQUARIAN PAPERS ---------- THE OLD SOWERBY WORKHOUSE” By the late H. P. KENDALL

... provide for the housing of the poor by the erection or provision of a house or other premises as a Workhouse in towns or parishes. The first Workhouse in Halifax Parish was founded by Mr. Nathaniel Waterhouse by virtue of Letters Patent from King Charles ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1956
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1135 | Page: 4 | Tags: none