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... CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE Fifty years ago the local workhouse was at Newton Abbot, and included in a Torquay Times feature of Christmas events was this report : IN Newton Abbot Workhouse the dinner hall, infirmary and wards were a mass of colour ...
... HERALD EXPRESS MONDAY NOVEMBER 8 1993 9 Workhouse WITH Christmas just weeks away The South Food and Drink Association is pushing its home grown produce They are hoping people in the area and other parts of the UK will stock up the larder with the area's ...
... 194 Ma Larkin’s turned workhouse monster PAM Ferris lovable Ma Larkin in the runaway BBC TV success Darling Buds of May has turned wicked workhouse mistress Mrs Mann this week in the first radio production for 20 years of the Dickens classic Oliver Twist ...
... Evening Herald Monday January 31 1994 H CITY F amilies ‘can’t afford a workhouse diet’ THOUSANDS of Plymouth families are unable to feed their children an 1876 york-house diet on present income support levels according to a shock new report The country’s ...
... 20 miles trek IT was an accepted practice on the part of a large proportion of the roadsters to tramp from workhouse to workhouse, sometimes a distance up to 20 miles or more, with plaintive appeals to residents en route for a copper or a crust of bread ...
... brick and stone complex spent more years of its life as one of the Victorian era’s notorious workhouses than it ever did as a hospital And the memory of its workhouse history has been left buried deep within the town’s psyche even into today Broomborough has ...
... them until they came out of the workhouse again as their meagre goods were often lost by the officials Some of the old and crippled would walk all the way -to Plympton Workhouse for another handout and Ford Workhouse Wolsely Road would also take them ...
... Chul k, o f Southampton. wondered if the Fred Chulk mentioned in the report could be the little lost Fred who was sent to a workhouse by his father 50 years ago, when his mother died. The stepmother had tried to find out from her husband what had happened ...
... the for serial when 14 working for his ’‘O’’ IN AUGUST and September of 1849 Plymouth was ravaged by cholera The city's workhouse founded in 1630 and otherwise known the “Hospital of the Poor's Portion'' in Catherine Street was already heavily overburdened ...
... ent appellation, its true character is more readily perceived. And we call a Minister of Public Welfare a Master of the Workhouse, his functions will be more readily understood. No doubt many people find it advantageous to have their doctors' bills paid ...
... of a workhouse in an area of Plympton known as Underwood The workhouse was intended to house local and travelling homeless persons Nearly 60 years later the Plympton Union became the Plympton Rural District Council and later still the work-house was ...
... surmises that Mayor might have recently been burgled or that if not pretty soon would For workhouses though there was that year the bounty : 6 1855 The Stonehouae in Workhouse on Christmas Day regaled with roast beef and plum pudding and tea and sugar was given ...