... own territory visited regularly, and woe betide any who encroached. I\ewcomers sometimes had to await the departure to the workhouse of a regular. A strict code r uled barter rates, and, when an influx of unemployed tried to break into the game, there were ...

... showman, J obn from the aribbean. He wa old for 1, 000 gn. to a showman, J obn Richarclson, who had been born in l\larlow workhouse. I ichard on put '( COU TRY LIFE-AUGUST 14, 1969 395 CORRESPONDENCE INDUSTRIAL RELICS IR,-1 was glad to read of the restoration ...

... sine(;}, leaving behind a lot of sickles and scythes, penny-farthing bicycles, steam engines and steam ploughs, old brick workhouses, the Poor Law and child labour gangs. study in themselves, and those who wish to pursue it are well served by Mr Grinsell's ...

... splendid submarine regions, for the poor mermaid is very thin, seems half starved and terribly shabby, and altogether has a workhouse look abt>ut her. Buckland was not quite as critical of his own curiosity, which he called The Nondescript and exhibited ...

... In the Green Belt. Extensive accommodation some 6 bedrooms, 5 ground floor rooms, The OLDE WORKHOUSE, RUISLIP COMMON, MIDDX. XVIIIth CENTURY USE AS A WORKHOUSE later four cottages, now a very fine single residence in over 2 1/2 ACRES BECKETT, SON & CO ...

... helping the poorest and most helpless sections of the community-ill-treated women and children, paupers in hospitals and workhouses-at the same time lecturing and writing a great number of articles, pamphlets and books, mostly on questions of the day. ...

... travelled to the same most suitable home from home. The museum, which was opened in 1969, is housed in the hall of an old workhouse. Incorporating this into the factory layout proved a difficult task in the 1870 s, and voices were raised for demolition ...

... mills is said to COUNTRY LIFE-J ULY V LLEY AT PADSIDE, 27 , 196 1 have been worked by orphan children, sent from London workhouses, whose lamentations are popularly, though wrongly, s upposed to have given the hamlet its name. Then the blow fell. In 1862 ...

... These consist of a series of single-storey ranges, two for the men and one for the officers, with washhouses, stables and a workhouse (Fig Following extensive repairs, the Trust is leasing the building rent-free to three local groups: the Jersey Horse Driving ...

... of architectural styles. His illustration of a village street shows a Gothic church, houses with Italian balconies, and a workhouse part Swiss and part Tudor with extravagantly curly bargeboards. It was Robinson who on a visit to Switzerland realised the ...

... observed by walkers. A common sight on the highways of my youth was a tramp, travelling on foot from one Less usual and more workhouse to another. Less usual and more interesting would be a couple of sailors who, having missed their ship at Liverpool, were ...

... Cockney knee -up that absorb the provincial workhouse and metropolitan child-crime into the entertainment business. Read the book and you sense Dickens's outrage at tlle institutional cruelties of his age: one workhouse boy is so wild with hunger that he hints ...