... The spectre of the workhouse BEFORE the state pension was introduced, the spectre of the workhouse haunted the old. They feared it more than death itself. Indeed, some literally starved themselves to death to avoid ever passing through its gates. Within ...

... Christmas the workhouse GRAMPIAN 7.45 CHRISTMAS In the workhouse and Fenner Fashions has to cope with the “Christmas Rush” on the last working day before Christmas. Mabel Is getting the bird, Paddy is busy doing Mr Fenner’s shopping and Tony is desperately ...

... Home economics or a in a workhouse? / / n l-bv'C r*-\ Doer priority work or baby? Includes keeping up to date with the sending of invoices and receipts. Those seriously considering setting up on their own should also take the time to read up on the ...

... ambition. She and my father were married and became master and matron at Hereford Workhouse. My mother was twenty-five at the time. Forty years ago the inmates of a workhouse were expected to know their place and thank God for finding them a roof, a uniform ...

... who had been master of the workhouse before my father, came out of retirement, and resumed the post of master. So my mother (his daughter) was able to carry on matron, and we children were able to stay on in the workhouse, which was what we had to call ...

... at odds with backing. A like Morrisey's Everyday Is Like Sun but~not quarter >good. Mr » CUVE GREGOR, Wa«- ;eoma To The Workhouse: collection of rock ‘songs and ballads in ■4 his album. The is tired ...

... Victorian workhouse struck terror into the hearts of sick paupers who feared they might be sent there. These dreaded places provided their only hope of free medical treatment, and now to the thanks of campaigners like Florence Nightingale, the workhouse hospitals ...

... the best of then cloth for uniforms for his soldiers. Over the next few decades, several attempts were made to revive the workhouse but without success, and the idea was finally abandoned in 1711. ' ...

... those morning trips down to the nursery at the Hereford Workhouse, when mother taught me to remember the names of every grown-up and child in her care. I was too much of a handful to stay at the workhouse, and when I was nine years old my mother secured an ...

... was to investigate life in British towns—starting with Here ford. where he was born to the master and matron of the union workhouse—has been shelved because of the ill- health which dogs him. Every two or three davs he ...

... ibileatien—the full, frank. Mary ■■npesluoas life by the man with in Urltaln in JOHN BULL, oul tomorrow, read was born in a workhouse, son of the and brought up in comparative poverty, won a scholarship to Cambridge and lost job after job. until he finally ...

... d, 8,0). The programme is written Norman Longmate (who wrote “The Night the Germans didn’t Come”, “Christmet Day In the Workhouse” and “The Summer of the Doodlebugs} and based on his book “Th# Waterdrinkers”. It contains much contemporary anti-drink ...