... otherwise workhouses? The question has arisen in a county where a group of parishes within an old-time union wants to turn a disused building into flats for people in need of housing accommodation. The ratepayers in the union paid for the workhouse, which ...

... manager was Jesia Cegiowska. and the production was Wilfred Walter and Miriam Adams. The play w *s preceded by the lively Workhouse Ward (Lady Gergory) which was excellently given Richard Rushton, Stanley Williams, and Florence Burton. Presentations were ...

... manager was Jesia Ceglowska. and the production was Wilfred Walter and Miriam Adams. The play was preceded by the lively *' Workhouse Ward (Lady Gergory) which was excellently given by Richard Rushton, Stanley Williams, and Florence Burton p-e»entations ...

... They therefore had to start more or less novo two and half years ago Moreover, these institutions have been designed a 9 workhouses, and order to make them suitable accommodation for old people a considerable amount adaptations have to be carried out. ...

... therefore had to start more or less de novo two and half years ago Moreover, these institutions have j been designed as workhouses, and order to make them suitable accom- modation for old people a consider- able amount adaptations have to carried out ...

... blouses, petticoats, thick striped stockings, heavily-buttoned bodices and shapeless garments about as glamorous as the workhouse nightgown of the time! It was said that women wore more garments to enter the water than to stroll on the promenade, ...

... 20 miles trek IT was an accepted practice on the part of a large proportion of the roadsters to tramp from workhouse to workhouse, sometimes a distance up to 20 miles or more, with plaintive appeals to residents en route for a copper or a crust of bread ...

... Westcountry—it was quite a familiar sight towards evening in the winter to see them singly or in company making for the nearest workhouse to obtain shelter for the night. During the summer the great majority of them had * slept rough,” in barns, under a haystack ...

... there. was never designed as a hospital. Originally erected by the old Board of Guardians about 1840 as the St. Thomas Union Workhouse, it catered for paupers from all over the parish of St. Thomas and the St. Thomas Rural District. A colleague who looked ...

... Name Changed UNTIL 1929 it was the Workhouse. Then, in order that no stigma should be attached to children born there, the name was changed to Redhills House. At the 7 S A A :./__4_: .'»27' % ,f-’. S g 7 SR 0 .z,,ff.,f,’;:/” ; “ 4%5'%‘ ’#é‘i’” G e ...

... story of Captain Clark, of Bideiord HE DIED A-PINING FOR RUTH OVER a hundred years ago a Bideford sea captain died i.. a workhouse. In that fact, perhaps, there is little interest —but the story of his life and the way its closing years were spent have ...

... bringing intelligence that they were in the bay suppljed him with tobacco. . At last Clark was taken ill, carried to the workhouse by force, and died there a few weeks later. That is the story of Capt. Henry Clark . . ...