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... those terrible slums which bound the centre of our town. I also wish to see old people's homes set up and the stigma of the workhouse removed from those who have Isboured to build up our town, and who have now fallen on evil days. but who now deserve that ...

Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser Friday July 1 1983 tickets I’ve never known anything like it at the school ..

... number of parents and friends who attended the show The musical tells the story of Oliver a young orphan lad sent to the workhouse and placed in the employment of an undertaker He runs away from this job and teams up with a gang of London pickpockets led ...

20 Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser Friday March IS 100 YEARS AGO ARMY: There was a report of “roughs” latching on

... was fined 3s and ordered to keep away from the dairy WORKHOUSE: A correspondent complained about the unfeeling” attitude shown towards old people by their families who forced them into the workhouse so they would not have to provide for them 20 YEARS ...

lIPER SCROOGE (1970) Scottish 230 pm Musical version of Charles Dickens’ much loved story “A Christmas Carol” ..

... 520 pm Awardwinning musical starring Ron Moody Mark Lester Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed based on the Dickens novel about workhouse boy Oliver Twist Songs include Consider Yourself Pick A Pocket Or Two and just right for Christmas Food Glorious Food! GHOST ...

MtiJltfi' i year's video GREMLINS has bean one of the video smash hits and it's still in the chart this

... painting lost in the fall of Shanghai to the communists OPAL by Pamela Bennetts Opal Shannan bom in a slum raised in a workhouse and forced to take a job as a scullery-maid never loses her ambition to become a music-hall star As she climbs the rungs ...

20 Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser Friday December 19 1986 AIRDR1E & COATBRIDGE ADVERTISER It's all in our ..

... award winning musical staring Ron Moody Mark Lester Shani Wal-lis and Oliver Reed based on Dickens tale of Oliver the poor workhouse boy TRADING PLACES (1983) Scottish 1015 pm Current comedy favourites Dan Ayckroyd and Eddie Murphy star in this film where ...

100 YEARS AGO POOR: The Airdrie Parochial Board reported an increase in the number of poor people in the town

... increase of 20 since the last count six months previously A total of 140 of them were homeless and had been admitted to the workhouse A member of the Board severely criticised those people who had not paid the local levy for keeping the poor alive POEMS: ...

20 Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser Friday August 9 1985 100 YEARS AGO BOARD: At the annual meeting of the New

... Inspector’s house! A staggering £4000 was spent on the poor feeding them educating their children ana keeping them in the workhouse TYPHOID: The Sanitary Inspector reported 14 cases of typhoid three of scarlet fever and four of smallpox to the Parochial ...

i Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser Friday February 10 1984 Letters BOOKSHELF 28 South Bridge Street HERE is a ..

... as the latter history of the former Old Monkland Home is concerned One expression used in the article states that “Many workhouses forced the inmates to ‘slog their guts out’ for a few meagre crumbs and some sort of shelter and sooner or later they literally ...

26 and Coatbridge Advertiser Friday MAY 6 1994 WITH EVERY ORDER OVER £300 BAR LUNCHES Served daily DELICIOUS ..

... losing her parents in a cholera epidemic 16'-year-old Cissie struggles to keep her five young brothers and sisters from the workhouse Evicted from their cottage they seek refuge in a cave on the Northumberland moors where a local carpenter comes to their ...