... get a house in any street. People in those days were always having to sell their homes and take their families into the workhouse. There the husband was let out early every morning to look for work, then bring his family out again to start afresh—if he ...

... being rushed into shape the municipality was opening big electric light works buying up the tramways planning a big new work-house and cemetery and flirt FOR TOWN BROADWAY (AB C) Neagle M Wilding In Mayfair (U)l CROWN (HDM) Cont 60 Carol Marsh HELTER ...

... selfish inglorious lives” Mr Gaskell went on remind his audience conditions less ago mentioning at length the bailiffs the workhouses low and long jii Means Test meeting new age” he “A new and better world horn Socialism and it is we want put to people We ...

... strides have been made in that direction for the day has long passed when the only outlook for many old folk either the workhouse or a life of penury outside Question time brought an interesting reference to the matter of personal cleanliness in its broadest ...

... London here I It Is equalizing tendency the Reform Bill He loved the common folk and In 1838 visiting old Mrs Chinn in the workhouse recorded how in her youth no children were taught to read or write Her children learned at Sunday school and taught their ...

... the last recorded case was the fatal one referred to—ln 1915. Subsequently, a casual was admitted from the old Nantwich Workhouse as a suspect, but the case was not confirmed. iiihittingham, Clerk of the former Joint Hospital Board, says that , so far ...

... Michael's MR ALFRED MOORE Mr Moore aged 24 Sclier-street for Messrs Mayall and Turner Hey Liverpool Mr Moore bachelor in an Workhouse He a birth work a with Mayall Turner from about Ml for time Rev J oif City-road Mr and Dawson Mr and Mrs A E Mrs D Davidson ...

... Moore aas a bachelor. and started life in humble circumstancis He often spoke of his life as an inmate of the old Chester Workhouse and of the hardship and discipline endured there in his childhood days. He was a cripple almost from birth. and though ...

... of his good work, particularly for agriculture. 75 YEARS AGO [FYLDE Board of Guardians decided to send children from the workhouse to neighbour-, ing schools, the terms belng‘ 14d. per child per week, ...

... benefits if they are needed. Cahn) authorities are providing hostels for retired people who need care and attention No more workhouse benches, but comfort and dignity in retirement! The excellent work already being done will be encouraged when Labour is bark ...

... hospitals who did not need to there and many people their who needed hospital The reasons for this were that for many former workhouse with infirmary formed only refuge and that it was not realised eomo&ratively recently how old people responded treatment ...

... a position to live out their lives in their own homes instead of being sent to the workhouse whereupon a rtian shouted : You are sending ex-Service men to the work-house in Maghull” Mr Bevan replied : Now don’t you drag a succulent red herring like that ...