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WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Jeremy Bruce- Watt is the usual complement of old men who would object to being moved elsewhere. They like the company and they like to buy their own food and cook it on the big communal hotplates in the dining room. They stay on until they ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1964
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1666 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Friday, July 3 — DEACON BLUE Late Licence and Disco CELEBRATE AT ‘ ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 14 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Workhouse Britain

... as 142,000 Scottish families could not afford to feed their 255.000 children an 1876 Workhouse diet at present Income Support levels. At today's prices, a Workhouse diet would cost £5.46 per week per children - 30% more than the estimated £4.15 that Income ...

The spectre of the workhouse

... The spectre of the workhouse BEFORE the state pension was introduced, the spectre of the workhouse haunted the old. They feared it more than death itself. Indeed, some literally starved themselves to death to avoid ever passing through its gates. Within ...

Published: Monday 30 January 1989
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Christmas the workhouse

... Christmas the workhouse GRAMPIAN 7.45 CHRISTMAS In the workhouse and Fenner Fashions has to cope with the “Christmas Rush” on the last working day before Christmas. Mabel Is getting the bird, Paddy is busy doing Mr Fenner’s shopping and Tony is desperately ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1977
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 206 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Better fed in the workhouse

... Better fed in the workhouse MORE than 1.5 million families on benefit cannot afford to feed their children even a Victorian workhouse diet, a charity’s survey claims today. The study says that Britain’s most vulnerable children are worse off now than ...

Published: Tuesday 01 February 1994
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE SOMO SOMO

... WORKHOUSE SOMO SOMO / Platform W 1 Platform TONIGIT ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Bring back ‘The Workhouse’

... them with Workhouse. The advantages of the workhouse are that you can keep all the old. infirm, disabled. mentally ill, down and outs, and one-parent families under one roof, thereby doing away with the need for a Welfare State. The workhouse would need ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

STILL A WORKHOUSE

... type of . building. “Old folk don't want to go into a workhouse. While you may change the name of a place you can never alter what it originally was. Glenlockhart is still regarded by many as a workhouse.” ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1962
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

‘Workhouse’ kids shock

... ‘Workhouse’ kids shock # Inverness single mum Nonna Mcßean described trying to feed herself, her mother and her two small children on a food budget of £33 a week as “a hard full-time job”. Miss Mcßean (26), 56 Craigton Avenue, works out a daily menu at ...

Published: Tuesday 01 February 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 365 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

TELEVISION Sophisticated torture at the workhouse

... torture at the workhouse By MICHAEL PYE “ Christmas is for the kids” smaid Ken Dodd, leering sentimentally at a magic copper kettle. A ristnas Day television was splendid in small doses. Taken hour after hour, it was Christmas Day in the workhouse. Even Dickens ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1968
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

'workhouse unting Irish that failed- to

... 'workhouse unting Irish that failed- to across the - -In the end, we ' -as the = lights went up Mmtc 5 another more stimulating start % to the day. Haydn Murphy ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1988
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 32 | Page: 17 | Tags: none