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Rochdale Observer Saturday 26 November 1983 13 BEAMING Holroyd' Rakawood Mill the pktura data from 1915 or ..

... eventual construction of a single “Union” workhouse per parish The sense of outrage in this area delayed the building of the Union workhouse at Dearnley until 1877 BUTTERWORTH WORKHOUSE Hence Butterworth workhouse at Hollingworth was in use for far longer ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1983
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 701 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

18 Rochdale Observer Saturday 23 November 1974 Stop! Listen! free ns from this Newbold misery ELECTRICAL DEPT ..

... appears only part of the date -stone of the old Wardleworth Workhouse The complete date -stone read: 1802 It was situated high over the front doorway Wardleworth ceased to be used as a workhouse in 1878 and the building was demolished in 1971 Situated as ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1974
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1614 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Rochdale Observer Wednesday 13 November 1974 ALUN ARMSTRONG as Shep miner goes to House Commons to lobby his MP has

... “Annals of Rochdale” page 174 it reads: “1839 Wardleworth Workhouse (Chapel for the destitute) was opened about this time Closed 1877” On page 75 another entry states: “Wardleworth Work-house purchased for a chapel for the destitute April 1879” In Richard ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1974
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 858 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Rochdale Observer Wednesday 2 October 1974 Flats for people planned Juan - Taala O’Hara - Pyecroft Watkin - T ay

... Woodhouse of Bolton The workhouse was designed to accommodate 847 people including 29 officers It was opened on November 1877 and formally opened by Alderman Thomas Schofield on 19 December 1877 The building also housed a workhouse school but this was abolished ...

Published: Wednesday 02 October 1974
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1393 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

i Rochdale Observer Saturday 24 December 1983- Spirit of Christmas Hi NO time of the year lends itself more to

... Past” had little to recommend it In 1842 as the Manchester Guardian reported “Christmas Day in the workhouse” was for many a stark reality: “Spotland Workhouse: On Christmas Day upwards of 130 paupers were treated with an excellent dinner of roast beef and ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1983
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 723 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

16 ROCHDALE SATURDAY 4 MAY 1974 circulation 38838 weekly Open the doors From Front Page of council committees ..

... HOLLING-WORTH WORKHOUSE Mr Schofield moved that the inmates of Hollingworth Workhouse be transferred to other workhouses For the benefit of those members who were not present at the committee he said the reasons for closing the work-house were that for ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1974
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2309 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

STORY BEHIND POP SCENE mance at Perhaps the character the look-alike ii p would think American singing star I ..

... evil cunning isensititivity in Reviewing The Situation The show which is in Manchester until 18 April also stars Liz Fraser workhouse mistress id the roles of Dodger Oliver BY IN AuguatlOBS Kings-way Youth Band went on tour to giving concerts in the Rhine ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1987
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 446 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

13 ROCHDALE C3SERVCU - SATURBA Y M long WHILE miners have been this' to accept the in their outright strike

... given notice minute time ago to the - effect that the entire of all -of 'workhouses who were received by kept for the pensioners main-' that no pensioner be admitted Into the workhouses on other terms Mr Schofield opposed He said pensioners did not stand ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1972
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1735 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Old school picture arrives from Canada LOOKING BACK IF YOU saw the Moorhouse School picture in last week's The Way

... November 1897 THE ENSUING position of affairs in regard to the question the workhouse extension this: The Board have agreed that the erection of Cottage Homes for the workhouse children and new infirmary for sick inmates be proceeded with at once It has ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1997
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1622 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

ROCHDALE OBSERVER Circulation WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1M4 Strike victims WHATEVER the political and social skirmishes ..

... Brierley that wife was unhappy widower a shell coffin for his wife and proceded to the Workhouse He was startled at of wife fuRy materials the fledh It is first workhouses infirmaries to local groups not for make but for the painstaking research into period ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1980
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1736 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

16 : - ROCHDALE OBSERVER Wednesday 16 September 1992 ABC Members of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Circulation ..

... public attention to the minor wants of the inmates of Dearnley Work-house At the Conference held in the Public Hall on Saturday Mr Stead declared that “in ward after ward” at the Workhouse there was nothing on the wall to break the “dead dreary monotony ...

Published: Wednesday 16 September 1992
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1924 | Page: 16 | Tags: none