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‘ WORKHOUSE LOOK’

... WORKHOUSE LOOK’ estiges of the old Workhouse are being swept tin the Belfast City Hospital and yesterday ransformation became evident when Dame Minister of Health, opened the ted Ward 17. i Parker Was once drab Mr. H. I. M Clure. F R.C.S.. chairman of ...

Published: Tuesday 29 May 1951
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Who owns the Omagh workhouse ?

... Who owns the Omagh workhouse ? •• IT is time the Ministry made irp its mind as to who owns workhouses;’ Mr C. S. Beattie said at a meeting of Omagh Rural Council pn Saturday, when Mr. J Glenholmes, engineer, stated that the new architec would shortly ...

Published: Monday 09 July 1951
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 497 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

At the time the original hospital was built—it was workhouse then - - the population of the Poor Law Union

... At the time the original hospital was built—it was workhouse then - - the population of the Poor Law Union of Magherafelt was 80.000, and the old workhouse did good business. The site on which it was built was leased to the Poor Law Commissioners at a ...

Published: Friday 22 May 1953
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 327 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Passing Hour modern psychologists are 13 iiCE.NTLY portion of an old ** proving every day now just ..

... The Passing Hour modern psychologists are 13 iiCE.NTLY portion of an old ** proving every day now just workhouse building, which how right Shakespeare was, when llot beell OCCU or used for , V . , many years, wan taken over and lie wrote music hath chaims ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1950
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

* * *

... years ago to see how Belfast had spent the holiday then to find that the elderly women who were then resident at the Belfast Workhouse, which has latterly been magnificently transformed into the city Hospital, had been unable to enjoy Easter they should have ...

Published: Friday 11 April 1952
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

U.T.A. traffic receipts

... Northern Ireland. The hospital Is part of the old Ballymena Workhouse and has been extensively re-modelled and brought up to date in every particular. The south wing of the former Workhouse at present houses the chronic patients from the City Hospital ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1950
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TERRIFIED CHILDREN SAW FATHER

... DELAY Strabane wants to know who owns workhouse A RESOLUTION passed by Strabane Rural Council yesterday strongly criticized the “prolonged and inexplicable delay” in the settlement of ownership of the old workhouse buildings and grounds, and called for ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1953
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TELEPHONE 29414 BELFAST

... Minister of Health. of the great famine of 184 G. there were 739 people in Magherafelt workhouse. In 1948 the Poor Law was abolished in Northern Ireland, and while workhouses had changed but little in the century, great improvements had been made in arrangements ...

Published: Friday 22 May 1953
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 353 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

nurses

... His uncle before him had been associated with the inception of the Antrim Workhouse in 1842. so had in a sense followed a family tradition. During the 1914-1918 War the Workhouse had been taken over by the military authorities, and it was Mr. Clark who ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1953
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 524 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

From th» Northern Whig Twenty-five years ago Reports from various centres of labour unrest in Africa. Australia ..

... to England. f , ilty years ago During her visit to Belfast the Countess of Meath addressed two meetings—one in the Union Workhouse in support of the formation of a branch of the Brabazon Society and the other in the Municipal Buildings in the Interest ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1950
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Editor

... Editor stepping back into an old workhouse, instead of gaining the impression, in Lurgan. that is “under new management.” Generally and very widely speaking. Londonderry City sadly neglected. looks more like an ancient and haggard crone than ' maiden ...

Published: Monday 23 October 1950
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 4 | Tags: none