... Over the Hill, the Palace Theatre, Dundee. The story teljs how Mrs Graham (Molly Melvin) is saved at the gates of the workhouse John (Joe Nicol), the only member of the family with any filial tendencies. Her erring offspring Stephen played by Harold ...

... there! He was always recalled (and, of ~course, he readily returned!) to give the expected encore, “Over the hill from the Workhouse” in which a long lost son returns in time to save his aged mother from despair. We found our satisfaction in that encore ...

... Allegation 3 Challenging a statem en t by Bailie R. Bell, nionist candidate that Oliver Twist had received more to eat in the workhouse years ago than present day rations allowed Mr Thos. F. Hubbard said it was up to the people of Britain to decide whether ...

... reported as saying that 100 years ago, Oliver Twist, that famous character drawn by Dickens. had had more to eat in the workhouse than the present day ration offered the British people by a Labour Government. The 'Leven Mail' has a reputation. declared ...

... ol ML 5L oe 80 G e S iR Sie o e USRS ?*»’:4’7. PR A Gpa TR AT &}?p‘:“ g ‘Pre-War Workhouse Diet Was Better In Many Ways Than Qurs’ Mr Churchill, telling a 6000-§qdience at Plymouth to-day that we had now one Food Ministry official for every 250 families ...

... their sake , the whole vast , complex , costly apparatus of rationing ? ~ In the years before the war , dietary of London workhouses was in every way superior in meat , fat , sugar , and also in variety to that Trhich could be bought by a fully employed ...

... being for their sake the whole vast, complex, costly apparatus of rationing? the years before the war, dietary of London workhouses was in every way superior meat, fat, sugar and also in variety, to that which could be bought by a fully employed wage earner ...

... an address yesterday to the Edmburgh Centre of the English Association. In the realm of poetry, Crabbe’s doctor in “The Workhouse ” su%gested a cartoon by Rowlandson, he thought, After quoting a few lines from Matthew Arnold’s “A Wish,” he recalled Tenrgson’s ...

... Medicine ' s Age of Darkness . Of the poets who deal hardly with doctorsthe speaker instanced Crabbe , whose doctor in The Workhouse suggested -a cartoon by Rowlandson ; Matthew Arnold , some lines from whose poemA Wish , were quoted : ' and Tennyson ...

... workhouses 100 years ago was grater than the standard given for rations today. It might be that Mr Hubbard was satisfied with prevent day rations, but the majority of people in Britain were not satisfied. It is all very well for Mr Hubbard who is a member ...

... more tripe. Bailie Bell The figures were given by London County . Council in 1939 and showed that in 1938 inmates in London Workhouse received more each week than the present rationing standard. And believe me, many to-day would be only too gjad to have ...

... job, a vvif e and two young children faced with the street in May because landladies and landlords say no children. The workhouse is full to overflowing with people in the same or worse plight than myself. I've tried desperately everything possible since ...