... In the Workhouse and The Oracle Lunchtime KING'S HEAD THESE ARE two revivals of plays long forgotten; one a light, trite 18th century piece, the other an expository turn-of-the centry dialogue on the horrific predicament of improverished married women ...

... BUILT AS WORKHOUSE This one was constructed as a workhouse and the best that can be said about it today is that it has the look and the smell of a fairly well managed hospital. We believe that the institutional atmosphere which hangs about it cannot be ...

... Old workhouse now a hospital ’I‘HE handicap of trying to tend and nurse elderly patients in old buildings which were formerly a workhouse, was described to Upper Norwood Rotarians by Miss M. Annand, matron of the Queens-road Hospital, Croydon. ’ Much ...

... WORKHOUSE BUILT IN 1788 a workhouse was builj, as it was comsidered a cheaper méthod than making pnrnum. This workhouse was on Tooting Bec Common, and included two workrooms, two bedrooms, two sick rooms, an infirmary, and an insane room. In 1792 there ...

... Life in the workhouse THE OLD Ruislip Workhouse in Ducks Hill has a well docu- by Steve Hook mented history of nearly 200 years, of the Poor John Birch and Benja- The decision to build it was made min Branch borrowed £4OO from at a meeting of the vestry ...

... TURPIN AND THE WORKHOUSE An item in lighter vein was Dick Turpin at Stanmore (1735) by the Stanmore Dramatic Society (producer. Derek Younghusband). Turpin, who must have operated in a very wide territory, is reputed to have done so at Harrow, and ...

... THE WORKHOUSE GRACES An hilarious story by Una Troy, set in a little Irish town, and concerning the only occupds of the town’s workhouse —aged 104! B ...

... Contrast with the workhouse A LMOST 250 ears ago Hammersmith cared for its poor in a King Street workhouse. There, 132 boys made fruit baskets. shoes and clothes. In their spare time they were taught the basic rudiments of reading. writing and spelling ...

... back to the workhouse ? ONE of the current advertise m e t s linger over lovingly is the one which shows someone beating up seven eggs in a bowl. Get the extra protein, the extra vitamins, the -extra Iron, it urges and I nod approving:y. - So I did ...

... CORRESPONDENCE WORKHOUSE OR WORKSHOP it that the ! The i - local Reds were contemplating putting forward candidates in the forthcoming L.C.C. elections as a substitute for L'ilxitir in Westminster did not stirpri,,c 7ne. I would hardly think that a Communist ...

... SHOCK OVER WORKHOUSES happen in an old workhouse only a few months ago: An old woman. newly arrived. threw a few extra lumps of coal on a fire because she felt cold. Immediately a woman attendant advanced hand on hip and shouted: Who are you to touch ...

... TEARS IN A WORKHOUSE N a bleak building I surrounded by a high wall sit forty men staring straight ahead or down at the floor. No one speaks. Th e men seem oblivious of what is going on around them. Life seems to have drained from them, all but the dregs ...