... 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 ...

... WORKHOUSE OPPOSED The history of the building of the Todmorden workhouse shows, too, that Todmorden residents fought strenuously to avoid having their * paupers —the aged, the infirm and the unemplovable — housed under their noses or on the hillside ...

... The Southowram Workhouse By ARTHUR PORRITT I Jeremy Lister not constituting ant ,Part of the Meeting on the 7th .october. 1777. may be sufficiently filg v i o ured y ' shown by applying to the persons m in e ott adyearhspre usl themselves. Jeremy Lister ...

... 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 ...

... CONCERT AT WORKHOUSE A concert was given at the Union Workhouse last Saturday, by a troupe of children who had been trained by Miss Effie Taylor. ...

... FUTURE WORKHOUSES? To a questioner who asked: Are you afraid of the past? Mr. Taylor replied: We have a better record than any other party in the matter of social reform. What sort of houses are you going to build—workhouses? shouted a woman. ...

... Workhouse shadow Without a pension of any kind, unless a working man could find employment into an through old age, the shadow of the workhouse loomed ever larger. Sometimes independence was maintained by a multitude of small things bringing in pennies ...

... Taste of the workhouse Ja g (V=g j 7 iy ; ! ‘a ; VN ...

... Better in workhouse For what reply, short of the bludgeon of its small majority, could the Government give to Captain Crookshank's attack? We have dropped from a pre-war average of 260 z. of meat per head per week to some soz. Even the workhouse ration in ...

... Workhouse INnto workshop IT WAS a couple of years ago that Thirsk workhouse was called “a derelict monstrosity” and councillors expressed the need to do something about the old building which did nothing to enhance Thirsk's eastern approach. Since then ...

... The shame and sadness of the workhouse Mr John Walton, of Anvil Street, Brighouse, gave me an interesting book and said, ‘‘“What do you think about this?’’ It was the complete printed minute book for the Halifax Union, or the Gibbet Street Institution ...

... Tales from the workhouse BY RICHARD TAYLOR CHAIRMAN RIPON MUSEUM TRUST WORKHOUSE LIFE WHAT a wonderful weekend we have had at the Workhouse! For the first time since it closed as an institution, the vagrants' wards have been alive with the sounds and ...