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... century the conditions in some workhouses were appalling. In 1807 the Rev. James Webster, a Justice of the Peace, inspected the parish workhouse at Lidlington, which had formerly been the pest-house. The said parish workhouse is not fit for the habitation ...
... Christmas in the workhouse WHEN talki about Christmases past, most folks look shocked when I tell them that I once spent Christmas Day in the workhouse, but this was one of my most memorable Christmases. I was invited to spend Christmas Day with my b ...
... LETTERS Christmas Day in the workhouse Many of your readers will recall the legendary recommendation made one Christmas Day in the Workhouse, “when up spake one old pauper, his face as bold as brass”, in response to the Workhouse Master’s offer of Christmas ...
... “School looks like Victorian workhouse’ says governor Holmemead School, Bigglesvah.isi.nadq:lorfi state and not fit for young children to be educated in, said Mr Vic Brunt, at the school governors’ meeting on Tuesday. Mr Brunt and Mr Richard Bennett visited ...
... ONLY ONE THATCHED COTTAGE AT OAKLEY Workhouse that Became Homes for Two Families . In the “good old days”, when villages really were villages and their completely rural charm had not been spoiled by ribbon development, the High Street at Oakley was lined ...
... 'IN the ’Eighties smallpox was brought into the town by a tramp in the workhouse and the inhabitants went about in fear and trembling of catching the disease. ; People were afraid toreceive change in the shops, and shopkeepers afraid to take money from ...
... 22 LutonBedfordshire on Sunday March 3 1996 FITNESS be FUN at Workhouse Gym! AEROBICS Great Exercise for tummies & thighs Beginners welcome Tel Christine (RSA) Biggleswade 01767 601807 tor any details PjSR MOIWH 23A HIGH STREET NORTH DUNSTABLE BEDS TEL: ...
... MEAT ON THREE DAYS In the parish the prosperous ne«txented the inns, and the workhouse waited for those who failed. In 1762 the Overseers farmed out the workhouse in the north end of Woburn to & contractor. and there is an agreement which gives us the ...
... to retain the facade of The Limes, Biggleswade, the former Victorian workhouse “because of its importance in the street scene’. If this was the only example of a Victorian workhouse in the country there might be a case for its retention, but there must ...
... expressed a liking for the seas were apprenticed in the Merchant Navy and others started their careers on fishing trawlers. The Workhouse then entered upon period of comparative placidity—broken only from time to time by a fracas between the staff and wandering ...
... pension, who is a chronic invalid, and goes out part of the day from the workhouse to collect his pension, and who refused to have his pension being taken away by the workhouse, his pension being then disallowed. Paupers and pensions — Mr J. J. Famminey ...
... LIMES, SAY PLANNERS The County Planning Committee want to see the complete demolition of The Limes, the former Georgian workhouse in London Road, Biggleswade. The building is listed by the Department of the Environment as one of architectural or historic ...