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... THE WORKHOUSE Mr. Ranson said that Stansfic'ldl View was built as a workhouse and, as was the practice in the days when it was built, it was stuck up on the hillside in bleak surroundings and made as unattractive as possible externally. Whep it was handed ...
... THE WORKHOUSE Todmorden Board of Guardians decided to seek borrowing powers to defray the cost of the extension to the Workhouse and Hospital and for the purchase of Spencer House Farm and a part of Langfield Common, CHURCH PROPERTY “Church property and ...
... WORKHOUSE INMATES CELEBRATE ROYAL WEDDING Mr. T. Ashton, Chairman of the Todmorden Board of Guardians, gave the inmates of Stansfield View Institution and Children’s Home an excellent tea on Tuesday to celebrate the wedding of Princess Mary. Mrs. J. A ...
... CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE At a meeting of the Todmorden Board of Guardians it was decided to accept the offer of Walsden Chorch Choir to give an entertainnent on New Year's Day to commence at three ‘o'clock in the sfternoon. It was also decided to provide ...
... ENTERTAINMENT AT THE WORKHOUSE ~ An instructive and pleasing entertainment was given at Beggarington. Mr. Wilkinson Pickles, of Gads Hill, Halifax, gave his wonderful and descriptive account of his tour through the Holy Land and Continental return home ...
... ENTERTAINMENT AT THE WORKHOUSE A number of the children attend-l ing the infants’ department of Room- | field Board School were conveyed to the workhouse in three waggonettes, ‘provided by the managers and a few friends, and gave a most excellent‘ and ...
... WORKHOUSE INMATES There were 114 inmates in the Todmorden Workhouse, including 21 imbeciles or idiots. During the course of two weeks there had been 78 vagrants—seven children, 19 women and 52 men. ...
... WORKHOUSE OPPOSED The history of the building of the Todmorden workhouse shows, too, that Todmorden residents fought strenuously to avoid having their * paupers —the aged, the infirm and the unemplovable — housed under their noses or on the hillside ...
... CONCERT AT WORKHOUSE A concert was given at the Union Workhouse last Saturday, by a troupe of children who had been trained by Miss Effie Taylor. ...
... THE EXTENSIONS TO TODMORDEN WORKHOUSE At an official opening ceremony of the extensions to the Todmorden Union Workhouse 100 invited guests were served with a five course meal. (No mention was made of what the 103 inmates had to eat that day.) At least ...
... MERRY MUSICAL MAIDS AT THE WORKHOUSE Last Saturday evening Miss Effic Taylor’s “Merry Musical Maids™ repeated at the Stansfield View institution the delightful and picturesque entertainment which they recently gave in the Town Hall with such conspicuous ...
... MERRY MUSICAL MAIDS AT THE WORKHOUSE Last Saturday evening Miss Effic Taylor’s “Merry Musical Maids™ repeated at the Stansfield View institution the delightful and picturesque entertainment which they recently gave in the Town Hall with such conspicuous ...