... century the conditions in some workhouses were appalling. In 1807 the Rev. James Webster, a Justice of the Peace, inspected the parish workhouse at Lidlington, which had formerly been the pest-house. The said parish workhouse is not fit for the habitation ...

... Christmas in the workhouse WHEN talki about Christmases past, most folks look shocked when I tell them that I once spent Christmas Day in the workhouse, but this was one of my most memorable Christmases. I was invited to spend Christmas Day with my b ...

... establishment of Parish Workhouses in Biggleswade and the surrounding DO 0 The passing of the Poor Law An?endment Act in 1834 brought the. Union Workhouses into being of which The Limes in London Road was an enm&l;l The Parish Workhouses passed into private ...

... “School looks like Victorian workhouse’ says governor Holmemead School, Bigglesvah.isi.nadq:lorfi state and not fit for young children to be educated in, said Mr Vic Brunt, at the school governors’ meeting on Tuesday. Mr Brunt and Mr Richard Bennett visited ...

... LETTERS Christmas Day in the workhouse Many of your readers will recall the legendary recommendation made one Christmas Day in the Workhouse, “when up spake one old pauper, his face as bold as brass”, in response to the Workhouse Master’s offer of Christmas ...

... s in Lunacy of a visit made to the workhouse on the 15th ultimo by Mr. Frere one of the visiting commissionrs. The report was as follows:— “I found three men and six women on the list of imbeciles in this Workhouse. One of the patients is not legally ...

... MEAT ON THREE DAYS In the parish the prosperous ne«txented the inns, and the workhouse waited for those who failed. In 1762 the Overseers farmed out the workhouse in the north end of Woburn to & contractor. and there is an agreement which gives us the ...

... to retain the facade of The Limes, Biggleswade, the former Victorian workhouse “because of its importance in the street scene’. If this was the only example of a Victorian workhouse in the country there might be a case for its retention, but there must ...

... for the Biggleswade workhouse? Lightning, a journal published in the interests of Electric Lighting, has a paragraph in its issue of May sth, 1892, dealing with the subject of the proposed lighting of the Biggleswade Union workhouse with electricity. It ...

... pension, who is a chronic invalid, and goes out part of the day from the workhouse to collect his pension, and who refused to have his pension being taken away by the workhouse, his pension being then disallowed. Paupers and pensions — Mr J. J. Famminey ...

... LIMES, SAY PLANNERS The County Planning Committee want to see the complete demolition of The Limes, the former Georgian workhouse in London Road, Biggleswade. The building is listed by the Department of the Environment as one of architectural or historic ...

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