Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... Born at the workhouse Harding tells his story well, without undue modesty or brusque selfassertion. He was born.in 1907 at the Union Workhouse, Hereford, but not poverty: his father was the master and his mother the matron. In he was treated as Important ...
... In and out of workhouse The lined lace the 77-year-old woman who only bad Is. 6d. left when she had paid for bare necessities out of her 335. weekly pension and allowances, broke into smiles when she was presented with £1 from the moneysent the Hull reader ...
... Way to the workhouse? LEEDS reader passes on to me the following scrap conversation which .-he overheard while waiting in a tram (iueue behind a young man and old couple. You see. granddad. said the young man, there's many of in the unions nowadays ...
... 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 ...
... Half-way up the lert the picture St. Cuthbrrt's Church, with the old workhouse, now the Council ortices. Just below it. School Hill, with the police station to the right it, lends from the Council offices past the Secondary Modern School to the cinema ...
... LITHO MACHINEMEN TWO COLOUR OPERATORS reouired for Crabtree and Roland workhousing available, non-contributors- pension scheme, top wages and bonus to suitah'e applicants, T.U. « Middlesbrough Branch) AppIy:—PAPER CONVERTERS Ltd Street 16. AYOLIPPE TRADING ...
... Meat: one-third of the pre-war workhouse ration —Mr. Churchill Charges timidity and hesitation the Socialist ranks over defence and criticism of the meat ration are made a letter from Mr. Winston Churchill to Sir Walter Monckton, K.C., the Conservative ...
... casual ward at Bradford Workhouse to study the modern tramp, he looked at me in surprise and said: But I thought they'd been done away with under the Welfare State. In one sense he was right. There are no longer workhouses we used to know them. Today ...
... arrival at the South lodge hostel—no longer the workhouse—in Leeds, is after all likely to a happier one than she thought on her first day. In 1948. when the National Health Service started, the old workhouses, with their Oliver Twist associations, became ...
... Mother Plascidus told her: “We will fetch the police and remove your habit from you and send you to the workhouse in a prison van and in workhouse clothes.” Miss McCann was kept in the hospital for three days. Mother Plascidus tried to persuade her to ...
... SHODDIES & BURRS SPINNING WASTES, etc., and WOOLALL LOTS OK VIEW at MIDLAND WOOL WORKHOUSES. BRIGOATK. WIND HILL. SHIPLEY from TODAY (MONDAY) time and further parttmiJers o®. Auctioneers the ahoee address. Phone Shipley ...
... ' Man of 68 injured by lorry Struck by a motor lorry In Wakefield Road. Oesett, last night. Robert Ackroyd (68). Workhouse Yard, Flushdyke, was taken to Wakefield Clayton Hospital with . evere head injuries. He was stated to very poorly. ...