... Workhouse to be demolished PART of a Vlctcrian workhouse at Shipstonon-Stour is to he demolished if no alternative use can be fcund for it Warwickshire County Council who own Shipston House on the Darlingscote Road, Shipeton. successfully applied to Stratford ...

... THE WORKHOUSE WHEN members of the staff of the Council House. Coventry, were discussing cuts which have been made by the Finance Committee in estimates for the coming financial year, the remark was made: The Museum people are moving into the workhouse ...

... WORKHOUSE DEMOLITION PLAN IS ...

... Workhouse It was used as a workhouse until the early stages of the Second World War, when the residents were transferred to Exhall. The workhouse buildings had heavy damage during air raids on Coventry. In December. 1943, the Salvation Army re-opened ...

... WORKHOUSES “I think it is absolutely barbaric — the whole idea of attacking old peorle and pursuing them for small amounts of money. It’s criminal,” he said. “We might just as well open up the workhouses. This is what they mean by going back to the Victorian ...

... Workhouse The next phase of the main development of the Stratford Community Hospital is due to start in 1994, the AHA was told. It comprises the demolition of the former Victorian workhouse, Arden House, and building a new administrative support block ...

... Workhouse As very little money was needed to buy the cress before going out to sell it, Mayhew said, It is followed by the very . poorest of the poor such as young children who have been deserted by their parents, and whose strength is not equal to any ...

... Workhouse She was born in Stratford workhouse; her mother was Anne Hudson and her father James :«;g;ray. and she died in I know you are far too goung to remember her, ut you may have heard stories, you may have hearg'your father or your grandfather mention ...

... WORKHOUSE “In that year (1937-38) Benn Buildings the Council’'s H.Q. sed into the hands of Marks and Spencer and the Borough Council had nowhere to go. “What happened? The ceremony took place in the board room of the Poor Law Institution commonly called ...

... Workhouses Little more than ten years ago residential provision for the elderly was almost entirely in former workhouses. At first these new homes were almost all conversions of eidsttng houses or mansions. but now they are purposely built. - At the ...

... TO WORKHOUSE Mr. S. W. J. Green, a local Justice of the Peace and member of the Welfare committee as a Rugby representative on the council, formally opened the home, which has been occupied ...

... Workhouse Master ...