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... From Workhouse to Hospital—to Seaside The announcement, made last week. that some 150 patients at Stansfield View Hospital for Mental Defectives are to be taken for a week's holiday to a Skegness holiday camp. focusses attention on a lecal hospital where ...
... CHILDREN & AGED SHARE WORKHOUSE Back to Dickens-vm. OFFICIAL l-rom Our York Staff Shortage of accommodation for homeless children in York is acute that 18 of them—l 3 boys and five girls—are housed with aged people In the 200-year-old workhouse now known The ...
... In 1834 the Poor Law Amendment Act was passed, leading in 1858 to the closure of the old Workhouse and the building of the spacious new Knaresborough Workhouse in Stockwell Road, which later became Knaresborough Hospital. There is plenty of evidence ...
... Workhouse museum cash hope CELLS formerly used to house tramps have moved a step nearer becoming a Victorian Workhouse museum. Ripon Museum Trust plans to turn part of the gatehouse block at Sharow View, Allhallowgate, into a centre focusing on the Poor ...
... PUBLIC INSPECTION OF THE WORKHOUSE AND CHILDREN’S HOME The Guardians of the Todmorden Union decided two or three weeks ago to throw open the Union Workhousz and Children’s Home at Mankinholes for public inspection. The total number of visitors each day ...
... A far cry from the workhouse About a third of the children also have physical handicaps. taurant in two minutes tlat when we take a group of the children “We can never teach them in the accepted sense. What we have to do is teach them social skills and ...
... WOMAN COSTS WORKHOUSE £l,OOO At the meeting of the local board it was stated that a woman, who recently died at the workhouse, must have cost the institution about £l,OOO during 37 years as a helpless inmate. }She had been an inmate almost ever since ...
... Victorian ode on jail, death and workhouse IN Victorian times Scarborough had Its own resident poet. He was called Matthew Harman, and he worked as a fisherman before he discovered a talent for pootrr-wrltlng — or maybe discovered that being a poet was ...
... Allhallowgate Methodist Church Workhouse Museum 7.30-9.30 pm YMCA 11-noon Market Square 11am-2pm Wakeman's House 4pm YMCA 5.30 pm Ripon Catherdral 7.30 pm Holy Trinity Church 7.30 pm Ripon Cathedral 5.30 pm Ripon Cathedral 10.30 am from Ripon Cathedral ...
... YOUTHS ORDERED TO SUPPORT THEIR FATHER IN THE \ WORKHOUSE Three brothers, aged 18, 16 and 14, were summoned to show cause why an order should not be made upon them to contribute respectively 2/, 1/6 and 1/- per week towards the maintenance of their father ...
... ’-4 ' Mirfield workhouse PEOPLE AND PLACES by GEORGE REDMOINJ DS OUR view what life in the workhouse was like is probably coloured by the Oliver Twist or by tales of hardships which have passed into local lore is this picture necessarily untrue even distorted ...
... —An era of grace. . .and workhouses—— The high and low life B ON sale now: Prudence Bebb's fascinating new book. ...