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... number of people not attached to organisations Tracing the history of the hospital, Mr. Harlow said it grew out of the Totnes workhouse. built in 1837 and 1838. The turning point came just before and during the war when the old ideas were swept away. The Totnes ...
... the older generation “workhouse” is still one of the most evocative words in the English language on a par with illegi-tamacy or eviction Even today old- timers who remember the shame and stigma of being consigned to the workhouse' will still refuse to ...
... 314955 Tel: TORQUAY (0803) 213213 Today’ winning 4 No20 575 MONDAY DECEMBER 21 25p Totnes anger at hospital move Back to the workhouse EC festive $ carve-up! THE traditional carving of Christmas turkey at a South Devon hospital has been halted by Euro-red ...
... to feed each child for a week less than the amount it cost in a Victorian workhouse in today’s money The ‘A’ Level home economics students first looked at the typical workhouse diet of gruel bread and suet pudding and found it did not contain the protein ...
... becomes available, nothing all. j Workhouse bell DLACKAWTON'S amateur fire party has accepted an Old workhouse bell as an alarm. It was presented by the management of a local garage which ; recently bought Kingsbridge Workhouse for an agricultural equipment ...
... and she started her working life at the age of 14. Her jobs included being in service with a family. and being a cook at a workhouse. She ran a public house In Gloucester until she was 85 and then came to live in Torquay with her son-in-law and daughter ...
... Television has a bumper selection of films which range from a hilarious Western with Laurel and Hardy to Christmas Day in the workhouse with Oliver Twist. Bob Hope opens this film season in Son of Paleface on Christmas Eve in which as a young man out West ...
... finger in land pie' THE £lO grant for pensioners announced along with the prices and wage freeze was the politics of the workhouse, declared Mr. Jack Tench prospective Labour Parliamentary candidate for Torbay. Speaking to the combined wards of Brixharn ...
... an extract from an 1850 publication about the old Stoke Damerel parish workhouse in Devon-port At the time the centre building was “about to give place to a commodious New Workhouse now building on the Saltash road nearly two miles from the town “This ...
... look! The town’s old Victorian workhouse is completely exposed as the red brick Broomborough Hospital landmark Finally bites the dust Demolition men have completed the job of knocking down the newer section of the old workhouse which was turned into the town’s ...
... hospital is closed down to save health trust cash Part of Broomborough used to be the town work-house which closed down more than 50 years ago But the workhouse label has sparked off a storm of protests from staff and boss es at the Broomborough Hospital ...
... 12. Trevol-view, Torpoint. were jointly charged at Torpoint yesterday with stealing 441b. of lead from the old Union-road Workhouse. Both pleaded guilty. Turner, who had four previous convictions, one for stealing lead, was sent to prison for three months ...