... labourers employer. And when he is did not end with tires. Nearly too old to labour then the 301bs. of salt pork were stolen workhouse is sure to be the t' A ro n m ot a A = . c o li 7 l n e b f ulc d h isa er's ' place where he must spend geare d at Long ...

... and left those running it. workhouse did not last each get £l5. This year £3OO in her will, instruct- The inspector said that long, but the need to pro- extra funds have allowed ing that the interest on it while the workhouse was vide for the poor did ...

... that he knew something about being drunk aid if he had kept to the drink he would either have been in a lunatic asylum or a workhouse and certainly not a member of the County Council. In his village, he alleged, there were 200 total abstainers out of population ...

... Morris Dancers have had when t hey gave their Annual History the root of the problem—the old want is for the public to know workhouse—which he says has the position really is. 1 don't been a thorn in the hospital's flesh, people to get the idea that I The ...

... Day visitors to the workhouse eave each inmate the sum of sixpence, and aifts of tobacco, pipes or snuff. Christmas greet ngs cards and tovs for the children were also received. There was a choice on the menu at Buckingham Workhouse. It offered roast beef ...

... described the storeroom as very poor accommodation for this purpose. • One word summed up the staff accommodation in the old workhouse, Dickensian Another phrase for it, voiced by a member of the party, was a slum- ...

... MATRON AT SALE OF WORK feeling that many still regarded Winslow Hospital a workhouse was referred the Matron (Miss Beat) at the opening, Saturday, the first sale of work Inch had been held there. Tin- Matron suiil that it «as regn-t--alili' tliat they ...

... closely linked bat are nevertholess proud of their own distinct identities. ASPECIAL service to give treats to children from a workhouse was only one example of the charity worst carried out by a South Bucks vicar. The Reverend George Harold Culshaw, who was ...

... Dick. whose work with former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been well chronicled. and on a local basis, by the new Workhouse gymnasium in ...

... Markham hands when the last proprietor Frederick Markham took over the business. That bring us up to date with the shop and workhouses to the rear. But apart from the fact that the huge warehouse was once a cobbler’s and, following the outbreak of World War ...

... of applications to the council. Other requests include one for consent to builc two blocks of four garagcs at the former workhouse in Brackley Road. Towcester, made by Mr. E. M. Joynes of Niéllningalc Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain of § Calvert Road, ...

... walls and a roof—and around them the services of the country go on, costing aside those foe whotn there is no longer The Workhouse to turn to. There can be no relaxation white such situations exist for young or old. They have a human right to better treatment ...