... appeared daily offering loans from £5 to £5000 to “respectable householders” If you had neither money nor job there was the work-house and several Midland authorities (including Stratford) were spending noticed young f have crown: otherwise will fresh hard ...

... 50 YEARS AGO At the **House ' From the Herald of 3rd January, 1900 ** The inmates of the Union Workhouse had recently what might be called an exhilarating Christmas dinner. The viands, good as they were, had to be washed down with cold water. Cold water ...

... In her youth she did much social work Poor Law institutions and she has always insisted that she met her husband in the workhouse He too was trying to help the other fellow Character COMEDIAN and character-actor who has fought and entertained in three ...

... rationing.” 1t was the Conservative view that the strong should help the «wak, In the years before the M dielry of London workhouses was in every way superior in meat, fat, sugar and also in wvariety, to that which could be bought by a fully employed wage ...

... 75 YEARS AGO 4] Children in the Workhouse From the Herald of sth Feb,, 1875 At a meeting of Stratford-on-Avon Union ** Mr. Bagley begged to call the attention of the Guardians to the overcrowded state of the girls’ bedrooms, there being no less than 30 ...

... description of pensions to-day. during those earlier years the Tories gave the old-aged pensioners the sum of 6s. a week and the workhouse. while at the same time throwing millions of pounds away in keeping two to three million men idle. Now we have Mr. Hore-Belisha ...

... were nationalised the pr es e n t standard of living would be drastically reduced. and fair shares for all would be of the workhouse variety. From the remarks made by Mr. R. H. S. Crossman at his adoption meeting, if one did not know, one might think that ...

... pleasantly - termed rest centres. where conditions are sometimes every bit as crude and as destructive of family life as the workhouses of the past. Are we going to place our future welfare in the hands 3f such 'false and glib-tongued prophets ? Moseley, ...

... 75 YEARS AGO 4 Workhouse Bride From the Herald of 12th Feb., 1875 ** At a meeting of the Board the other day a painter named Fitzgerald, who had been employed during the time he was an inmate of the Workhouse in the task of renovating and cleaning the ...

... himself to the nearest workhouse Eustace blackmails his election - minded father and marriage-minded brother into avoiding the social stigma that would accrue to the family from the presence of one of its members in the workhouse The play wears well Forty-five ...

... face value 7- but it is a gold coin it is worth considerably more a bullion dealer J F (Sutton Coldfield) The Birmingham Workhouse 3d issued by the authorities of that institution time when there was deficiency of the regal copper coins Poor specimens ...

... described in vivid detail the squalid conditions of the old workhouses—the men and women clad in uniform, herded together in rooms with a table and a few chairs and each and every workhouse looking like a scene from Dickens’ ** Oliver Twist.” But in ...