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Workhouse Terror

... Workhouse Terror Born on one side of the dividing pale in a country parish, I never really knew or understood emotions and proceedings on the other side: working man's club the vicar, the Primitive and proceedings on the other side: the working man's ...

Published: Thursday 12 December 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1528 | Page: 81 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE A fter several years of work on

... WORKHOUSE A fter several years of work on Sm,- A fter several years of work on local history in this corner of Buckinghamshire, 1 was naturally interested in the account of i\mersham in your issue of November 2 1. In connection with the large \•Vorkhouse ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

MRS SINKINS FROM THE WORKHOUSE CONSERVATION OF OLD GARDEN PINKS

... to which all the garden Pinks belong, be they old is large genus 300 species, Europe and few outliers FROM FROM THE WORKHOUSE WORKHOUSE By very containing more than widely distributed in Asia, and with even the mountains of South Africa. this multitude ...

Published: Thursday 19 May 1983
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 700 | Page: 184 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE-MARCH 20, 1980 885 Marriages and Death ofOldham, and before that had been Master of Oldham ..

... COUNTRY LIFE-MARCH 20, 1980 885 Marriages and Death ofOldham, and before that had been Master of Oldham Workhouse. He became Mayor of Oldham, as automatically right wing in life as his son was to be moderately left. Roy Fuller's father died youngish, ...

Published: Thursday 20 March 1980
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: 157 | Tags: none

NEW BOOKS WORKHOUSE GIRL'S MISERY Reviews by HOW ARD SPRING T }l£ anom·mous author of A Comish Waif's Story (Odhams

... those a her such living in such peni- what she I dear! y; e,·ery became nally years first security? it. WORKHOUSE WORKHOUSE WORKHOUSE WORKHOUSE GIRL'S GIRL'S refas MISERY MISERY -~ \ I— w o 3 \ LES At O\ N SR Y f y L.\\ %\ B \ Fsl 58 TLT > = A ) s&.{\ ...

Published: Thursday 11 November 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1459 | Page: 77 | Tags: none

PUDDING ON PAUPER PLATES THE VICTORIAN POOR AT CHRISTMAS

... In the Workhouse: Christmas Day, which appeared as late as 1877, says it all. Its story is that of a woman who, refused out-relief, died of starvation on Christmas Day, rather than enter the workhouse. A year later, her husband, now a workhouse inmate ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1983
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2203 | Page: 243 | Tags: none

AN EARLY PARISH

... s to be responsiblcc for local paupers, and EARLY PARISH WORKHOUSE SIR- My photograph elegant, classical doorcase, broken pediment, of the Workhouse near Ringwood, Dated 1725, this is WORKHOUSE photograph shows classical doorcase, with example following ...

Published: Thursday 19 July 1979
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 146 | Page: 101 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE-DECEMBER 1, 1983 Arab-a baby in years-has been dragged in from the wintry streets. His face is ..

... between the workhouse Christmas and that enjoyed by even the meanest citizen who could support himself and his family, made not a few philanthropists decidedly uncomfortable, and they acted accordingly. Christmas Day in the Greenwich Union Workhouse, in 1883 ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1983
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1500 | Page: 244 | Tags: none

BECKETT, SON & CO

... In the Green Belt. Extensive accommodation some 6 bedrooms, 5 ground floor rooms, The OLDE WORKHOUSE, RUISLIP COMMON, MIDDX. XVIIIth CENTURY USE AS A WORKHOUSE later four cottages, now a very fine single residence in over 2 1/2 ACRES BECKETT, SON & CO ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1975
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 208 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

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... the workhouse. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 reversed previous policy and removed paupers into mstitutions rather than providing Scott and Moffat 50 workhouses Later, Scott outdoor relief'. Scott and Moffat built no fewer than 50 workhouses over ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 1980
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 543 | Page: 143 | Tags: none

Who Cared? I

... exhibitions. Among many other items there are views of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum off the Old Kent Road and of the workhouse of St. J ames's parish, St. George's Hospital standing in fields at Hyde Park Corner, the high walls of the Fleet Prison ...

Published: Thursday 11 November 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: 87 | Tags: none

Clarkson Memorial, the Victorian building legacy-for example, in the grammar school extension of 1897-is ..

... former workhouse, now the Clarkson Hospital, on Lynn Road, could become a com~;arable case; it is pre-Victorian Gust) and historicist in style, although Elizabethan rather than Gothic Revival. Built after the 1835 Poor Law Act made the old workhouse of ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1329 | Page: 110 | Tags: none