... 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 ...

... WORKHOUSE WOOD HILPS PATIENTS Some of the woodwOHL seen in this picture was fashioned from wooden forms used in a Manchester workhouse nearly 101 years ago. The workhouse became Springfield Hospital. Crumpsall, and the present-day patients there have ...

... `WORKHOUSE' OFFICIALS MT BACK AT JIBE OFFICIALS connected with the centre for homeless men in Liverpool have hit back over accusations by the Campaign for Single Homeless People (CHAR) that such centres were a disgrace, an obscenity and Poor . Law workhouses ...

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... dole. Or stood outside the workhouse door, The mean means test, the hunger much. •When unemployed were one The empty grate and larder too. This was the lot of more than But surely this nothing new. just the honest workers’ due. This was Britain in her ...

... Christmas Day II in the workhouse whatever next? ft Christmas Day in the Workhouse. And' What comes next in the original version ? Not many of us know to-day, but in Victoria's day every young man and bewhiakered uncle could get up on Sunday afternoons ...

... It's back to workhouse -2 families living there PEARS of a return to the workhouse system, through cases where families had been allowed to live in a corporation 'institution, were expressed at Bolton Children's Committee , to-day. , Councillor F ...

... If you are buying, make sure . IT'S A WORKHOUSE! WE ARE brainwashed from an early age to believe that the best investment in life is briks and mortar. House buyers are often so starry-eyed about having a place of their own that they overlook (or are unaware ...

... Angry building boss hits out at workhouses fug DEVELOPERS have hit back after being accused of trying to create Victorian-style workhouses on Merseyside. An Essex-based company had plans to convert a former Waterloo school to a hostel for the homeless ...

... Hospitals 'grim relics MUST we put up with h os pitals which are grim of workhouse relics of the workhouse days? What is the Chris get get better service ice than the t i an opinion on private majority who a only able to me dical treatment? Local days ...

... wnMUMV NOVKMBM IS School chiefs study News dossier on workhouse firm EDUCATION officials investigating the plight of Manchester’s “workhouse teenagers” were today trying to decide whether to take a city firm to court for employing underage children And ...

... OCTOBER 27 A BOER RISING A WORKHOUSE SCANDAL NEWS 1879 The Liverpool Echo was born on a blustery damp day on October 27, 1879, at a time when the Boers were rising in South Africa, the Russians were getting a hiding from the Turcomans and English ...