... The shame and sadness of the workhouse Mr John Walton, of Anvil Street, Brighouse, gave me an interesting book and said, ‘‘“What do you think about this?’’ It was the complete printed minute book for the Halifax Union, or the Gibbet Street Institution ...

... be taken to the workhouse. He remained semi-comatose for most of the n’lfillat but died in the morning. e man had been an inmate of Crosland Moor as far back as 1888 and had in his possession an order for re-admission to the same workhouse. “Under the most ...

... cS Ih bers of Brighouse Chilaren's ere as workhouse children, got the rt with “Food. Glorious Food’. :[ Y A ‘ %uh Q %'\ A 4 \ AR y @ , g \- ) o p ’ -, o , ‘H L ¥4 E o \ i ...

... Yorks tomorrow. Mark Lester in ““Oliver”’ (BBC 1, tomorrow), the awardwinning musical based on the Dickens novel about the workhouse boy Oliver Twist. Ron Moody plays Fagin, Shani Wallis is Nancy and Oliver Reed is Bill Sikes. - 4 ~ - ‘x E ...

... prefers local history, a subject which has undoubted appeal to him. Did you know, for instance, that Southowram once had a workhouse, no doubt as %rim as anything &zliinted by ( (l))arles Dickens? Where was it? According to scraps of information gleaned ...

... alrgaor child inmates of the Halifax Workhouse the breath -of country air and pleasant outing which she offered them on Tuesday by taklnioabout 60 of the little ones Beaumont Park, Huddersfield. Children who live in a workhouse, even under the best conditions ...

... eighteen youngsters turned .up for thg audition, and from those 15 were-« chosen for Fagin’s gang and #* further 35 for the workhousé children. s The sheer numbers of thosg,, involved have presented the « organisers with a headache. Re,, ‘hearsals have had ...

... and local history about the valley. Bottom Hall was ce the Town Hall for Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse, it then served as the Workhouse vl the passing of the Poor Law Act of 1834, [l Carr Lane was one of the old Pack Horse roads that connected Huddersfield ...

... traditional music. Mark Lester in ““Oliver”” (BBC 1, tomorrow), the award- winning musical based on the Dickens novel about the workhouse boy Oliver Twist. Ron Moody plays Fagin, Shani Wallis is Nancy and Oliver Reed is Bill Sikes. John Wayne stars in his Os ...

... award-winning musical starring Ron Moody, Mark Lester, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed, based on the Dickens novel about the workhouse boy, Oliver Twist. Made in 1968, the film includes a host of songs such as ‘‘Consider Yourself, “‘Pick a Pocket or Two’” ...

... in one of their mills.” The main story in Mr Prince’s paper is about a girl who had run away from home and gone to the workhouse in Dewsbury, because she said . she was treated better there. Another story was about a West Riding County ‘Council meeting ...

... Jonathan Cash as *“Artful Dodger” and John Short as ‘“‘Fagin” were outstanding. [0 WORKHOUSE: Members of Brighouse Children’s Theatre, several pictured here as workhouse children, got the show off to a rousing start with “Food, Glorious Food. | | | % ...