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... Wanted: Pictures of Workhouses ILLUSTRATIONS, broad - sheets and Press cuttings showing the hardships children had to endure in the era of the workhouses a century ago, are wanted by the Nelson Area Children’s Department. - Miss Maureen Aylward, area ...
... HAPPYNEWYEAR Workhouse IMEemaories AEVERYBODY knows the first two lines of the poem about Christmas. Well this photo shows the sad sight of little children in the Wigan Workhouse on Frog Lane early in the century. It has been loaned to us by Wigan history ...
... Saturday January 2 1892 . . . Christmas Day at the workhouse passed off much in the same way as in previous years. The great feature of the day's proceedings was the dinner, served in the dining hall - which had been decorated for the occasion. At the ...
... .. An inquest was held at Workhouse on Tuesday by Mr H Milligan. the deputy borough coroner relative to the death of Patrick Gettings. 60 years of age. & jabourer of 62 Lower Gullett. Aspull who was admitted ¢ the Workhouse Hospital in & comatose state ...
... 3.00 ALM: OLIVER! The sion of the Dickens novel about workhouse boy Oliver Twist, starring Ron Moody, Mark Lester, musical ver- Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed. (1968). 5.20 THE CLOTHES SHOW. Jeff Banks travels to Northern Ireland to investigate the manufacture ...
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... good business areas due to the fact that trams ran down Lord Street. Workhouse: Fleetwood people were asked to try to save )mmmamm\g’nmmmw Boer War from being sent into the workhouse. % ...
... to assist. Children’s homes were the institutions in which the workhouse authorities, the Board of Guardians, housed their younger charges and, although the Guardians and their workhouses were abolished in 1930, children’s homes, under the supervision ...
... DEREK QUINN. LADOS’ s s musical version of Dickens’ novel about the young workhouse boy who asks for more, is professional and entertaining throughout. From the moment the workhouse boys chant out a chorus of the song ‘Food Glorious Food' the audience can ...
... improvements for the better have been amazing. The slums have gone. The workhouse is no more. It is probably difficult for young people to understand conditions in Wigan Workhouse, latterly called Frog Lane Hospital, with its iron beds and Dickensian ...
... said prisoner was not quite right. He was a lazy fellow and did nothing but loaf about. He was ordered to be taken to the workhouse to be examined by the doctor. A dog was suspected of rabies in the Scholes area. About 1.30 pm on Thursday, Police Constable ...
... Friday evening he said he was going mad and asked Mrs. Hilton to take him to the workhouse. When they got to the“little gate” on Frog Lane, the man collapsed. Workhouse officials ascertained that he was dead. It seems that for the last two years the deceased ...