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WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Jeremy Bruce- Watt is the usual complement of old men who would object to being moved elsewhere. They like the company and they like to buy their own food and cook it on the big communal hotplates in the dining room. They stay on until they ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1964
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1666 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Friday, July 3 — DEACON BLUE Late Licence and Disco CELEBRATE AT ‘ ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 14 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

STILL A WORKHOUSE

... type of . building. “Old folk don't want to go into a workhouse. While you may change the name of a place you can never alter what it originally was. Glenlockhart is still regarded by many as a workhouse.” ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1962
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Better fed in the workhouse

... Better fed in the workhouse MORE than 1.5 million families on benefit cannot afford to feed their children even a Victorian workhouse diet, a charity’s survey claims today. The study says that Britain’s most vulnerable children are worse off now than ...

Published: Tuesday 01 February 1994
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE SOMO SOMO

... WORKHOUSE SOMO SOMO / Platform W 1 Platform TONIGIT ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

'workhouse unting Irish that failed- to

... 'workhouse unting Irish that failed- to across the - -In the end, we ' -as the = lights went up Mmtc 5 another more stimulating start % to the day. Haydn Murphy ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1988
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 32 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

TELEVISION Sophisticated torture at the workhouse

... torture at the workhouse By MICHAEL PYE “ Christmas is for the kids” smaid Ken Dodd, leering sentimentally at a magic copper kettle. A ristnas Day television was splendid in small doses. Taken hour after hour, it was Christmas Day in the workhouse. Even Dickens ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1968
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

“Workhouse’ attitude to homeless condemned

... “Workhouse’ attitude to homeless condemned The workhouse principle still applied in dealing with the homeless and many , local authorities .were blatantly disregarding Government policy, Mr. Douglas Tilbe, outgoing director of Shelter, said in London ...

Published: Tuesday 30 November 1976
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 487 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A wired workhouse for the Internet age?

... A wired workhouse for the Internet age? public deoepz and a social outcast. According to the historian TC Smout, 19th century Scotland was no harder-but no more lenient - towards its single mothers than was England. “The Magdalene Institutions were for ...

Published: Tuesday 30 December 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Workhouse days back, says Labour

... Workhouse days back, says Labour BRITAIN is returning to the days of the Victorian workhouse because of an increase in the number of people working excessive hours, Labour claimed yesterday, writes Alan Jones. The party released new figures showing that ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

It is all sounding increasingly nasty, this return to the workhouse.’

... It is all sounding increasingly nasty, this return to the workhouse.’ BBC’s James Naughtie pressed him last week on why he believed many tecnagers were impregnating themselves to get a council house. “I've seen a number of press stories . . .” began the ...

Published: Sunday 11 July 1993
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Workhouse Standards Have GIM in Homes for Elderly

... Workhouse Standards Have in Homes for Elderly FOUR correspondent Distaff is perhaps basing her opinions of old folks' homes on the old workhouse standards which have, in the great majority of cases, been entirely superseded by modern and comfortable ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1954
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 512 | Page: 3 | Tags: none