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... * * * 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 ...
... All No doubt the people responsible for this place when it was first brought into commission thought it the last word in 'Workhouses' or Institutes, whichexcr you like to call it. but you have only to look along the corridor outsile this room to sec what ...
... Bedfordshire. the request of several members the plans were held up so that they could be seen. Just look at it—it looks like workhouse,” exclaimed County Aid. Jeyes The Chairman. Lord Luke, said that the finished colour would not be the same the colour used ...
... NEW POLICE STATION PLANS CONDEMNED Glorified Farmhouse” Or “Like A Workhouse” A MPTHILL'S proposed new Police Station looked, from the sketch plans, like a workhouse, County Aid. C. Jeyes complained at a meeting of Beds Standing Joint Committee on Friday ...
... barred, curtainless windows, cold stone courtyards, tall forbidding doors, and within, misery and squalor. That one word WORKHOUSE. Above all it was the terror, the M. Cook, wbo at a meeting in 1882 horror and the uttermost shame delivered address to dispel ...
... particular shop that sold distinctive clothes.™’ ~ Everyone knew where the clothes had come from, he said. ‘*‘We no longer have workhouse vouchers, but we do have the WRVS and organisations like the Lions,” said Clir Ellis. A senior social services official ...
... fell out of work—there were SIX of us my mother brought upso my Dad had to go on parish relief. 1 used to go to the local workhouse to fetch bread for us and queue at a R.C, nunnery for soup. ; Well, what [ can see of it, Ald. Roberts is endorsing the Rent ...
... woodchopping labour Irom this source, particularly when their farms lay on the recognised routes of the fraternity from one workhouse to the next. In the second half of the last century the fate of vagrants was too tragic a one to yield much material for ...
... soon on a £12,000 scheme to iron ocut a dangerous bend on the main Hitchin to Luton road near Offley. The bend 15 known as Workhouse Corner. A new road 220 yards long and 24 feet wide, with footways and drainage, will be buiit to cut across it. The existing ...
... the outside wall, Jack Sheppard was born in 1702 said Mr. Bill South, licensee of the inn. and raised in the Bishopspte workhouse. He became a highl tapped it one day and it sounded hollow. We wayman and used the money he will probably solve the mystery ...
... st, tute. tuner il expenses, 3s. 3d.; coffin HE COLLECTED for J. Sanders, 18s,; and main- the RATES tcnance of paupers in workhouse for one month. £49 15s 4d., are The management of the militia listed ' was part of his duty and he also In 1662 law settlement ...