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... 20 miles trek IT was an accepted practice on the part of a large proportion of the roadsters to tramp from workhouse to workhouse, sometimes a distance up to 20 miles or more, with plaintive appeals to residents en route for a copper or a crust of bread ...
... Westcountry—it was quite a familiar sight towards evening in the winter to see them singly or in company making for the nearest workhouse to obtain shelter for the night. During the summer the great majority of them had * slept rough,” in barns, under a haystack ...
... blouses, petticoats, thick striped stockings, heavily-buttoned bodices and shapeless garments about as glamorous as the workhouse nightgown of the time! It was said that women wore more garments to enter the water than to stroll on the promenade, ...
... some steps from the bottom of Paris Street These are screened by some sheets of corrugated iron First workhouse Near the spot once stood the first workhouse Exeter had It came into existence through a direction in the will of Canon John C Bury who died in ...
... bringing intelligence that they were in the bay suppljed him with tobacco. . At last Clark was taken ill, carried to the workhouse by force, and died there a few weeks later. That is the story of Capt. Henry Clark . . ...
... improvement, yet one which has been carried through most quietly, has taken place at the City Hospital. Transformation ONCE a workhouse, over-lorded by the Dickensian beadle. caring for the poor of the city, later labelled with the now odious—in Welfare State ...
... there. was never designed as a hospital. Originally erected by the old Board of Guardians about 1840 as the St. Thomas Union Workhouse, it catered for paupers from all over the parish of St. Thomas and the St. Thomas Rural District. A colleague who looked ...
... however laborious the duties required of them Charles Dickens On one occasion when Wakley was holding an inquest in a parish workhouse Charles Dickens was one of the jurymen and his account of the proceedings is a characteristic comment on the times The beadle” ...
... some money The more we encourage that habit the more likely we are keep Britain a couple of jumps away from the door of the workhouse In the cold chamber at the Motor Industry Research Association’s headquarters at Nuneaton BP scientists make a cold start ...
... primroses in full bloom were gathered a gentleman in this neighbourhood on Saturday last CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE: The paupers in the workhouse were on Christmas Day regaled with a good dinner of roast beef and plum pudding (From Wool-mer’s Exeter and ...
... Name Changed UNTIL 1929 it was the Workhouse. Then, in order that no stigma should be attached to children born there, the name was changed to Redhills House. At the 7 S A A :./__4_: .'»27' % ,f-’. S g 7 SR 0 .z,,ff.,f,’;:/” ; “ 4%5'%‘ ’#é‘i’” G e ...
... articles accused that body twisted balusters a handrail wasting money in the administra- gently curving upward at each the workhouse which turn and a panelling following the was “nothing better than same line which are typical of the a prison” early 18th ...