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EVENING NEWS Wednesday June 5 The Cambridge workhouse Pictures from the past The workhouse The name still casts ..

... EVENING NEWS Wednesday June 5 The Cambridge workhouse Pictures from the past The workhouse The name still casts its shadow the years When this remarkable photograph was taken at the Mill Road Cambridge workhouse at the turn the century the men’s dormitory ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1974
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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Cambridge Town Crier February 51994 7 WORSE DIET THAN THE WORKHOUSE To advertise ring (0223)69966 Fax (0223 ..

... Cambridge Town Crier February 51994 7 WORSE DIET THAN THE WORKHOUSE To advertise ring (0223)69966 Fax (0223)293913 ENTERING the workhouse was the worst nightmare of the poor in the last century and even today we are horrified at the thought of the austerity ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1994
Newspaper: Cambridge Town Crier
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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EVENING Thursday June 1974 What life for a crust of bread! Wash it! was Christmas Day in the workhouse the

... book The Workhouse (Maurice Temple Smith £400) he sets out familiar and lesser known facts and figures to form a sensible and comprehensive account Cambridge figures prominently in the illustrations There is the dining-room of the workhouse in Mill Road ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1974
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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The men's room of the workhouse three years before the fire Standing up is the matron Mary Ann Hosegood Master

... The men's room of the workhouse three years before the fire Standing up is the matron Mary Ann Hosegood Master of the city’s workhouse was hero in big fire THE Hosegoods were an institution in Cambridge a hundred years ago an institution within an institution ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1985
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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20 WEEKLY NEWS Tuesday December 31 1 991 So that was seasonal fare in the workhouse IT WAS Christmas Day

... December 31 1 991 So that was seasonal fare in the workhouse IT WAS Christmas Day in the workhouse but that's where the similarity to the well known poem ended The residents of the Cambridge workhouse weren't about to stand up and abuse their benefactors ...

Published: Tuesday 31 December 1991
Newspaper: Cambridge Weekly News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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CAMBRIDGE EVENING Housewives’ choice to boredom its own HOME is the girl’s prison and woman’s workhouse that ..

... CAMBRIDGE EVENING Housewives’ choice to boredom its own HOME is the girl’s prison and woman’s workhouse that arch feminist George Bernard Shaw His reductionist view of the female lot must be shared if not by most girls— are emancipated at an early these ...

Published: Tuesday 29 December 1970
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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22 CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS SaturdayDegnibgrjJ A NEW bike for one Christmas the workhouse for another two sides ..

... 22 CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS SaturdayDegnibgrjJ A NEW bike for one Christmas the workhouse for another two sides of the (coin this festive season for local athletes their way to the Commonwealth Games ' Meanwhile a third medal hopeful is already packing ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1989
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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CHRISTMAS ELEVEN LEFT: women’s day room RIGHT: Tne men’s infirmary ‘It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse’ A ..

... women’s day room RIGHT: Tne men’s infirmary ‘It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse’ A special Christmas “Looking Back” by RUTH SEALY THESE pictures of the Cambridge Union Workhouse built in 1838 and now housing the Mill Road Maternity Hospital in Cambridge ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1980
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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Don’t move these people By Tim Curtis A' PLAN to close down an old folks' home in a former workhouse

... Don’t move these people By Tim Curtis A' PLAN to close down an old folks' home in a former workhouse at Linton has sparked of angry moves to spare the residents from upheaval proposal from countv council social services chiefs has yet to be approved and ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1985
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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Xii Town Crier Homefinder August 8 1992 10 aavemse nng (0480) 300900 Fax (0480)301133 SENT TO THE WORKHOUSE BUT YOU

... Xii Town Crier Homefinder August 8 1992 10 aavemse nng (0480) 300900 Fax (0480)301133 SENT TO THE WORKHOUSE BUT YOU WILL NOT WANT TO LEAVE! Situated down a quiet lane the property boasts a wealth of period features and is set in superb grounds with stables ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1992
Newspaper: Huntingdon Town Crier
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS Saturday February 4 !984 11 Workhouse still evokes a grim picture IN THE year before ..

... buildings as the Cambridge Union Workhouse built in the 1830s RODNEY TIBBS looks at the origins of the buildings and other grim workhouses of the same period fancy names like “The Limes” and “The White House” Workhouses at Caxton and Whittlesey have been ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1984
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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