... 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, ...

... manager was Jesia Cegiowska. and the production was Wilfred Walter and Miriam Adams. The play w *s preceded by the lively Workhouse Ward (Lady Gergory) which was excellently given Richard Rushton, Stanley Williams, and Florence Burton. Presentations were ...

... manager was Jesia Ceglowska. and the production was Wilfred Walter and Miriam Adams. The play was preceded by the lively *' Workhouse Ward (Lady Gergory) which was excellently given by Richard Rushton, Stanley Williams, and Florence Burton p-e»entations ...

... 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 . . ...

... otherwise workhouses? The question has arisen in a county where a group of parishes within an old-time union wants to turn a disused building into flats for people in need of housing accommodation. The ratepayers in the union paid for the workhouse, which ...

... 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 ...

... therefore had to start more or less de novo two and half years ago Moreover, these institutions have j been designed as workhouses, and order to make them suitable accom- modation for old people a consider- able amount adaptations have to carried out ...

... They therefore had to start more or less novo two and half years ago Moreover, these institutions have been designed a 9 workhouses, and order to make them suitable accommodation for old people a considerable amount adaptations have to be carried out. ...