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... Workhouse For those without jobs the only shelter was provided by the workhouse — drab institutions where people were crowded together like animals. In 1837 the Guardian carried a report of a man, unemployed for nine months in Ashtonunder-Lyne who was ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1987
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 76 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE These facts are revealed in the book, written by Francis Herbert Stead, M. 8., Warden of Browning Hall, who was honorary secretary of the first National Pensions” Commiitee, Stead was a man deeply interested in people. He gained many of his ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1973
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Aged taced a struggle for survival

... struggle to implement the Old Age Pension, and leads up to the passing of the 1508 Old Age Pensions Act was when he visited the workhouse at Leicester that he made his first public announcement on pensions. On that occasion were present a Conservative Guardian ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1973
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

The cast of Lancaster Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society’'s

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1992
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Unlike Oliver, you’ll find there’s much more

... Buy,” sung to a human back cloth of fantasy-like images. Choreographer was Joyce Warrington, and others taking part were Workhouse Boys and Fagin's Gang: Robert Anderson, Steven Burns, Michael Casserley, lan Donaldson, Graham Ellis, Keith Falconer, Michael ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1970
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 362 | Page: 7 | Tags: none