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Pigeon club homes in on a new centre

... Flying Club completed its purchase of Banchory House, at the north end of Melrose Street. The house had been Scarborough Workhouse's Children’s Home until Sunnyside, on Stepney Road, was opened in 1927. Harry Hodgson, secretary of the club, said, “Scarborough ...

Published: Tuesday 26 May 1998
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE SCANDAL OF | R LR

... Nightingale Ward and the whole of St Mary’s,” she said. “The staff were very dedicated but were having to cope with near-workhouse conditions. On that basis we welcome the fact ...

Published: Thursday 25 November 1993
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

; L Destiny .. . DURING its long history, Dean Road has had many names and the most interesting was

... a descriptive title - “The Street of Destiny.” The street was so known because it contained the Registry Office, prison, workhouse and - cemetery among other places. It was a street - which looked after people from the cradie to the e ;‘ Dean Road actually ...

Published: Tuesday 16 February 1993
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 101 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Scandal of St Mary’s

... Scandal of St Mary’s @Continued from p 1 “St Mary’s is still like a Victorian workhouse. We are stuck with a buildmethat is totally unsui for the care of gllhf'elddy and mentally Miss Carr said that ent needs, were sharing the same wards at the “got instance ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1993
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE closure of six beds for mentally-ill patients at a Scarborough hospital has revealed the deep problems ..

... they deserve. During 1995, acute in-patient mentalhealth services are due to move from St Mary’s — a converted Victorian workhouse — to a new 37-bed district psychiatric centre at Scarborough Hospital. ANDREW NORFOLK learns why the move cannot come a moment ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1993
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 110 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE closure of six beds for mentally-ill patients at a Scarborough hospital has revealed the deep problems ..

... they deserve. During 1995, acute in-patient mentalhealth services are due to move from St Mary’s — a converted Victorian workhouse — to a new 37-bed district psychiatric centre at Scarborough Hospital. ANDREW NORFOLK learns why the move cannot come a moment ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1993
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 110 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

£4OO for guide dog

... Members had a pie and pea supper to celebrate the guild’s 34th birthday. Mr Colin Spencer spoke about the Elland and Greetland workhouse. He was thanked by Mrs Doreen Carroll. ...

Published: Friday 05 September 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

O O

... O O These plans were refused: Conversion of barn to house, Workhouse Green Farm, Colden, Hebden Bridge, by Mr and Mrs G. Whittaker; charity wishing well, at canal basin, Hebden Bridie. by Hebden Bridge and District Round Table; change of use of part of ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

W hen life was nasty, brutish — and short

... other unforliving, there remained only tunate occupants. The workthe workhouses. The most house accounts offer many notorious of these was the fascinating entries, such as: West Bar Workhouse, built .10 W'‘a'_“ Robert’s in 1722, Here discipline was funeral ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1978
Newspaper: Star Green 'un
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 847 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Living below t

... youngsters in an 1876 workhouse r Action For Children, which is marking its claims the charity. Evening News | 125th anniversary today. Jane Stephenson took a look at wha A new survey by the National Children’s ern day equivalent to a workhouse ¢ Home reveals ...

Published: Tuesday 01 February 1994
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 644 | Page: 10 | Tags: none