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HAPPY OLD AGE

... name to Poor Law institutions, it was realised that the principle of segregation was wrong and workhouses were abolished. Nobody regrets the ending of workhouses, but their going has caused new problems, for the old people remain, and the question, what ...

50 YEARS AGO

... idge railway. Uxbridge branch of the Shop Assistants Union reported a memberahip of 20. Clerk to the Master of Uxbridge Workhouse was granted an increase in salary from is 6d to 10s a week. ...

40 YEARS AGO

... 40 YEARS AGO Cost of intoxicants provided at Slough workhouse amounted to only 31d a year. A hundred poor children were entertained to tea at Providence Church by the local Home Minion. From the Middlesex and Bucks Advertiser, February 7, 1913 A by-law ...

50 YEARS AGO

... From the Ml&Hese% and Advertiser. December VI. INI Uxbridge Board of Guardians were told that there were 206 inmates in the workhouse as compared with 200 the previous year and 196 in 1899. The second of a series of trips suppers was held at the Chequers ...

GET YOUR XMAS BARGAINS AT BOVINGDON MARKET Every Saturday 9am-4pm * On the P 4505 New Hemel Hempstead * Free

... Every Saturday 9am-4pm * On the P 4505 New Hemel Hempstead * Free parking * All new goods guaranteed Wendy Fairs, The Old Workhouse, Ducks Hill Road, Ruislip, Middx A.P.M.O. MEMBER CHRISTMAS CRAFT PAIR On Saturday 18th December, Sunday 18th December, llain ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1990
Newspaper: Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
County: London, England
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THE MARCH OF TIME 50 YEARS AGO

... station. Ruislip Parish Council complained that they had hydrants but no fire aooliancee. There were 905 vagrants in Uxbridge Workhouse, as compared with 185 the previous year. Many tramps had to be turned away, because of lack of accommodation. ...

50 YEARS AGO

... Backs Advertiser. October 1. Met An application by a porter two Slough Workhouse for weeks holiday and grant of £2 in lieu of no holiday the previous year was turned down by the Workhouse Board as the porter only wanted the . money to spend an holiday.' ...

50 YEARS AGO

... No Man's Land. at Cowley. Among the presents received for the inmates at Christmas by Mr. Copping, master of Uxbridge Workhouse. was albs. of tobacco from the Red Cow Inn, Yiewsley Uxbridge Rural Council were told that the parishes of Hillingdon. West ...

40 YEARS AGO

... When 285 trees from Breaks Pears Estate. Harefield. were sold by auction. one elm tree fetched I:13 10s. V. An Uxbridge Workhouse inmate was sent to prison for a week after refusing to do his daily task and for kicking on his cell door and waking up all ...

RAILWAY NORKFAS

... RAILWAY NORKFAS Luke and Norris, who have lived in the district all their lives were born in the Old Workhouse on Ruislip Common. Since then their lives have Rowed in similar channels. Both worked for some time in London's underground sewers: both helned ...