... generally for he has en'made during ur Wellsley asure of the > a large and s to choose ans — The ritten to the f telephone Workhouse hat morning o 0 the Urban t permission e work, but opy of the ttee author- as an official 1 Committee tter off-than ...

... Committee, Ald. F. H. Russell, announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment had agreed that The Limes, a former workhouse, and recently used as residential accommodation for the homeless, could be demolished. It had been agreed that a lraining ...

... 100 YEARS AGO @ From The Beds Times, January 4, 1890. AN old fellow from the Bedford Workhouse felt himself shortchanged after he modelled for two young ufifiuzmmmwhomfw nine days for the two well-to-do women, on orders from the Guardians, missed a meal ...

... dastardly deed wil. ring through the ages, as did Oliver’s, the boy who dared to ask the workhouse master for more, or the famous old man who dared to tell the workhouse master what to do with his Christmas g‘nlddin; Before ive and her association prepare ...

... made Mr. Norman Reeves, superintendent of Abbotsbury, Biggleswade, confessed to a little sadness when The Limes, former workhouse and public assistance institution was demolished, he told Biggleswade Rotary Club last week. He said a great deal of good ...

... * * * MUCH has been done, and is being done, to make St. Mary's look less like what it so obviously is—a workhouse of the worst days of the Poor Law. The improvements inside are more apparent than those outside. That forbidding frontage takes us straight ...

... AUCTION SALES PAVENHAM BEDFORDSHIRE Wednesday Next at 6.30 o’clock. PASTURE FIELD, known as WORKHOUSE CLOSE containine Acres or thereabouts, which STAFFORD, ROGERS & MERRY Have received instructions the Administratrix of H Middleton deceased. to offer ...

... volunteers was made. After Colonel Caigcr had spoken, five men signed enrolment forms. The White House, Eatoi Socon, formerly a workhouse and now a hospital where chronic sick cases are nursed, is to be closed on 31st March. At the moment there are about 60 patients ...

... re Planning Committee is to ask the Minister of the Environment for consent to demolish The Limes, the former Victorian workhouse at Biggleswade, listed by the Minister because of its architectural or historic importance. The building was an old persons’ ...

... Samuel Whitbread School, Clifton are staging Lionel Bart’s famous musical Oliver, based on the Charles Dickens’, story of the workhouse boy who asked for more. This ambitious production will involve a cast of over 60, and the school orchestra, helped by pr ...

... see Lionel Bart’'s musical “Oliver™ at the Regal cinema. Biggleswade. Based on Charles Dickens’s tale of Oliver Twist, the workhouse boy who dared ask for more. the musical ends its twoweek long run at Biggleswade, and is followed on Sunday for six days ...

... strong and the rest of her life was spent endeavouring to reform the Army Medical Service (not only here, but in India), the workhouse infirmaries and hospital administration generally. She was the inspiration for the formation of the Red Cross, and established ...