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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Mary Ann Parsons was mother an inmate of Bideford Workhouse They there Mary's father had been transported Australia probably for an offence such stealing To avoid unnecessary charges on policy to workhouse children out to work “apprenticeshipt possible ...
... up (Quality flats in convenient location) Bid to close DHS 'workhouse' FRESH attempts will be made to close down the “North Prospect Workhouse” in Plymouth The former W'olsely Home workhouse now used as a i social services base has been branded grim and ...
... 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 ...
... 1813 a provision that the declared House of Correction within the Workhouse be available for lunatics and for other purposes? In 1849 however guardians reeolved build a new workhouse onland the Hospital had been endowed with finom the beginning One of ...
... poverty is having a devastating effect on one in four South West children whose families cannot afford to feed them an 1876 workhouse diet The charity today presented Prime Minister John Major with a letter urging him to apply his Back to Basics ideal to ...
... (left) and Richard Wysome Director of MA Instruments Ltd of Yelverton celebrate their success business challenge AN old workhouse and school site on Wolseley Road is being transformed into the Wolseley Trust Business Park following a £4 million development ...
... passed abolishing the Boards of Guardians and giving the right to local authorities to turn workhouses into hospitals He led the move transform the old workhouse Greenbank into Freedom Fields Hospital something of which remained tremendously proud But this ...