... THE WORKHOUSE The Poor Law Union Workhouse, at Tannaghmore South, accorde to Slator had William McElney as Master with Harriett McCloskey as Matron. A formidable pair no doubt in days when it was common?lace to advertise for or a keeper of harmless lunatics ...

... To workhouse On being told that the tribunal was unable to consider this application for extension of security. Mr. Hal!worth-Fagan said that he and his wife would have to go into a workhouse. Mrs. H. M. Butlin. chairman. explained that the council ...

... WORKHOUSES own soon yesterday milestone the old ‘The new chief weitere and now to new they will be transferred January. by the end of next ...

... Workhouse “The means test has become the harsh symbol of the public welfare services in the 20th century in the same way as the workhouse was in the nineteenth. and, like the workhouse, it has not had the saving grace of being efficient,” says the document ...

... Workhouses This Government want us to return to the tury — put the poor back into workhouses and give power to a few. Like other disadvantaged groups within our commumty, the disabled people are feeling the worst effects of this Government,” he added ...

... The Workhouse And The Vestry After leaving Water House the visitors, under the guidance of Mrs. A. R. Batley, B.Sc. (Chairman of the Walthamstow Antiquarian Society) by way of Vinegar Lane (one of Walthamstow’s oldest by ways), to the Parish Church end ...

... Workhouse Master ...

... 'Workhouse' grub PATIENTS at a hard-up hospital have been put on a workhouse diet costing a measly £1.60 a day. The meals prepared by a firm of outside caterers are so grim that worried families bring in pizzas and other food. And they're put to shame ...

... of 'workhouse' The story behind— The nonpaying guest house riday the thirteenth or September might have been 1 unlucky for some people, but for Miss Enid Cracknell, who runs a guest house in what is called the heart of Kensington's bed-sitter territory ...

... a barn hi Andestaff Lane and converted it Into a workhouse at a cost of Vild. plus furniture 22 1 1 Od. At Tieknall la 1783 the overseers of the poor were authorised by the Vestry to build a workhouse. ...

... WORKHOUSE FOR ■ASY One of the young masters at my school gets just over £5 10s. has to keep a family going,' he said. You see them living in basements and taking on all sorts of other contrivances to help make ends meet. It' is pitiable. Mr. W. F. Callander ...

... WORKHOUSE CHRISTMAS Not everyone tho.ight the old days were good. A post-war Britain has its poor and needy. but how much more unpleasant their lot cver 100 years aFe! At Birchington workhouse in 1822 Mr. Edward Young was !mid 2s. 6d. a week for each ...