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The Dickens workhouse of 1959

... The Dickens workhouse of 1959 News Would° Reporter AMAGISTRATE said yesterday that he was so appalled by the conditions in a home for the homeless under which a mother and her twoweek-old baby were living that he took them home. Hisauests at his 12-roomed ...

Published: Tuesday 29 December 1959
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

it said on the workhouse wall

... it said on the workhouse wall In 1824. the gateway house for homeless strangers was built. Homeless families were accommodated until 1964 in the building just pulled down. AN ACT OF PARLIA. MENT was passed on May 28, 1321, sihich was An Act for better ...

Published: Friday 10 September 1971
Newspaper: Westminster & Pimlico News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 524 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The shadow of he workhouse

... The shadow of he workhouse IF -1E shadow of the workhouse still hung over our lives even in 5 t he 19205. I ' ll 1 be in the workhouse my mother would say, over le household extravagance, and we had all seen the poor old \ \ o l-khouse ladies and ...

Published: Friday 10 August 1973
Newspaper: Fulham Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1811 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

SHE DIED FOR FEAR OF 'THE WORKHOUSE'

... SHE DIED FOR FEAR OF 'THE WORKHOUSE' JIM DUDGEON, 72-year-old pensioner, thought of old folks' homes as M the workhouse. No one had told him differently. And he knew the workhouse as a place where they parted husbands and wives into separate living ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1954
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 82 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Will Tories revive the workhouse?

... Will Tories revive the workhouse? Sir. I am a member of Marylebonc Labour Party. but I write in support of Mr. Sam Swerling, chairman of Marylebone Young Conservatives. w:tc is so delightfully explicit in all he says. It is particularly refreshing have ...

Published: Friday 13 November 1970
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 259 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Recommended the workhouse at Streatham

... three sips, which are equivalent to nine of Epsom. But Streatham had a good reputation for something else, too—its workhouse! Workhouses in those days were often hated, hut Streatham's seems to have been much more generous than most, said Miss Lewis ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1964
Newspaper: Streatham News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 567 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Trying To Avoid Workhouse

... Trying To Avoid Workhouse The mousier of two fullyfurnished rooms and a kitchenette on the first floor of a house at 53. Brownbill-road. Catford, told Lewisham Bent Tribunal on Tuesday that he was trying hard to avoid going to the workhouse. He was Mr ...

Published: Tuesday 23 January 1951
Newspaper: Lewisham Borough News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 2 | Tags: none