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Contrast with the workhouse

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1968
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 261 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

The workhouse style of fifty years ago

... The workhouse style of fifty years ago ON A very recent visit to a friend in the geriatric ward of the West Middlesex Hospital, sitting by her cot with my arms resting on one rail, it was an opportunity to look around at the elderly patients, to look ...

Published: Thursday 24 August 1978
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1157 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Stout points

... Stout points Arthur's trip from the poor house ASSISTANT to the Workhouse Master for the princely sum of £l6 a year. ' hat was Arthur Blythe's introduction to the hospital service 42 years ago. ]sow he has retired as Central Middlesex Group's deputy treasurer ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1967
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 85 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Full house for musical evening

... Glorious Food was sung with gusto and relish and led easily into the workhouse scene where Oliver asks for wore gruel. Stephen Jerrold and Susan Ayres were very effective as the cruel workhouse master and mistress. Stephen McNally played Mr. Bumble with heavy ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1968
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 334 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

4.11111 N% I

... plays the Lana Turner c) Mae West? world's greatest In which music- athlete? 4.11 SIN .4 al do a chorus of A - t 4.11i1N workhouse boys sing about FOOD? What is the 411%114 1 % 4 name of Steptoe's horse —a) Which Goon Hermes b) Dob- Which funny girl ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1973
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 84 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

FAGIN STEALS THE SNOW IN A COLOURFUL MUSICAL

... Hollywood that even Britain could make as good a musical as ever came out of the Dream Factory. It tells the story of the workhouse boy who dared ask for more, was sold as an undertaker's mute, ran away and was trained as a pick-pocket, finally finding ...

Published: Thursday 30 December 1971
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

CHANGE

... Bunning instanced in Victorian literature several accounts of these fairs and also of the girls who were recruited from workhouses. All was not gloomy many homes were well equipped for the servants' comfort. Mistresses were kind and considerate and remembered ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1970
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 147 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Page 19 People making entertaining news Success st of a writer THE GAZETTE Friday March 14 1986 David Nathan ..

... teamed up with playwright Whelan of Castlebar Hffl Ealing produce Workhouse Charlie an original story-in-song production It will get its premiere on the actual site of the Hanwell Workhouse Charlie was sent at age of seven 90 years ago It is now Community ...

Published: Friday 14 March 1986
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1347 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

NURSES-WE TRY AND DO THE BEST WE CAN

... patients to read in the Gazette about who have been extremely ill Acton Hospital going back and have, with the doctors. to workhouse conditions. surgeons and devoted nurs- It was very misleading to ing care helped these people the public to say people only ...

Published: Thursday 10 March 1977
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 182 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Page 22 THE GAZETTE Friday March 28 1986 Atoc Ents prutnts entertaining news Leisure Hard road to fame ROYAL ALBERT

... Peter Whelan was called Workhouse Charlie It was performed at the original Workhouse site now Hanwell Community Centre What we know as the Borough of Ealing was a scattering of tiny villages in open countryside Hanwell Workhouse where Charlie stayed was ...

Published: Friday 28 March 1986
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1358 | Page: 22 | Tags: none