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Workhouses

... Workhouses Little more than ten years ago residential provision for the elderly was almost entirely in former workhouses. At first these new homes were almost all conversions of eidsttng houses or mansions. but now they are purposely built. - At the ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 226 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Workhouse Reshaped

... Workhouse Reshaped LORD TAYLOR said anyone wishing to see the Welfare State at its best could not do better than visit the geriatric department of University College Hospital. looked after by Lord Amulree. It is noused In what was one of the terrible ...

Published: Thursday 14 December 1961
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 212 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

COUNCIL'S PROGRESS FROM WORKHOUSE

... COUNCIL'S PROGRESS FROM WORKHOUSE Tributes to the progress of &nab= Rural Council in recent years were paid last night when a new council chamber was opened in a prefabricated building adjoining the existing dikes at The Orange, in Coventry Street Bir ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

direction at Was L. Workhouse. Lm

... direction L. Workhouse. 19. HAYFIELD ROAD. MOSELEY. A 3 , 691919111' App.Meel and Recited Desgsard FREEHOLD MODERN DETACHED RESIDENCE. Automatic Partial Central Heating Metalled. Square Hall. Puny fitted Ckstairoom Horology mw®. Lounge. Dialog-room. ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 211 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Economies keep old folk in 'workhouse'

... Economies keep old folk in 'workhouse' Vicar on bank raid charge A vicar and his 59- year-old housekeeper appeared in court yesterday charged with bank robbery and burglary. Magistrates at Torbay, Devon, remanded then both for seven days after a ten-minute ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1975
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 690 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LIVING TODAY IN THE ONE-TIME WORKHOUSE

... LIVING TODAY IN THE ONE-TIME WORKHOUSE IN the social history of Britain there have been few objects that have attracted such universal hatred and hostility as the old workhouse. After 1848 they were going to be abolished. Yet in 1960 they were still the ...

Published: Monday 12 October 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1441 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Economies keep old folk in 'workhouse'

... next year while old people continue to live in a 139-year-old former workhouse at Ledbury, Herefordshire. One of the homes is being built in the garden of Belle Orchard, the old workhouse. and residents there will be able to see it standing empty after it ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1975
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 572 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

Workhouse to 'Warden ' for be destroyed stray dogs ? The last of Staffordshire's Stafford could soon have old ..

... Workhouse to 'Warden ' for be destroyed stray dogs ? The last of Staffordshire's Stafford could soon have old workhouses has lost its Whitehall protection and will an official dog warden to soon be reduced to a heap of round up the town's strays. rubble ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1970
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

LIVING TODAY IN THE ONE-TIME WORKHOUSE

... LIVING TODAY IN THE ONE-TIME WORKHOUSE IN the social history of Britain there have been few objects that have attracted such universal hatred and hostility as the old workhouse. After 1848 they were going to be abolished. Yet in 1960 they were still the ...

Published: Monday 12 October 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1442 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Home News Butlins camp like 'Victorian workhouse'

... Home News Butlins camp like 'Victorian workhouse' Butlins, the holiday camp firm, was fined a total of £1,940 yesterday and ordered to pay £4OO costs on food hygiene offences. The offences arose over conditions at the company's camp at Bognor Regis, Sussex ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1976
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 718 | Page: 7 | Tags: none