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... Workhouse Next morning as he ate the few pieces of bacon and sausage that were all the ration afforded he tried to make some sense of the babble of voices around him, all speaking the same language but in accents that varied from Scottish and Welsh to ...

Published: Thursday 31 July 1986
Newspaper: Saffron Walden Weekly News
County: Essex, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Workhouse

... Workhouse Now the hillside immediately below the Close has been bought from the West Suffolk Health Authority for £ 175 million by Hunting Gate Homes, a tloom private company of Hitchin, Herts. The firm is ...

Published: Friday 22 July 1988
Newspaper: Bury Free Press
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 35 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSES

... century the conditions in some workhouses were appalling. In 1807 the Rev. James Webster, a Justice of the Peace, inspected the parish workhouse at Lidlington, which had formerly been the pest-house. The said parish workhouse is not fit for the habitation ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1958
Newspaper: Biggleswade Chronicle
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Workhouse

... Workhouse And Christmas Day in the Workhouse at Lynn in 1882 would have brought a smile to the face of Charles Dickens. Not a bowl of gruel in sight, and the Oliver Twists of the time, according to our files of 1882. would appear to have had no need to ...

Published: Tuesday 23 November 1982
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE One Hundred Years ago THE :lc eased victuallers,; -E generally much imposed' upon by utterers of base coin. , were being plundered to a mat extent with some peculiarly well : T . 4We base half-, 'cravens and - Wry - I , The number of police ...

Published: Tuesday 10 January 1956
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 603 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Those u ire the days. . ...

Published: Tuesday 31 August 1954
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 7 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

at The Workhouse !

... at The Workhouse ! being incapabel of work, wife having ye ague (Enquire); John Nobel bad with a wind rupture, beg a truss (Truss); Jno. Leather want a nurse for wife and midwife, being near her time, and a trifel for ye child when born: 3 children oldest ...

Published: Friday 23 November 1962
Newspaper: Diss Express
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 564 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Workhouse to return?

... Hospital. I heard on the grapevine that as from April 1 it will revert to its original role as White Lodge Workhouse with Norman Tebbit as Workhouse Master. See you there! NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1990
Newspaper: Newmarket Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Old Workhouse at

... Old Workhouse at - _ Pulham can be sold .4 SCHOOL managers' meeting was held in Pulham Pennoyers School on Wednesday last week, the Rev. C. J. Huggins presiding, and it was decided, in view of the increased value of the School House, that the fire insurance ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1968
Newspaper: Diss Express
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Plans to convert workhouse

... Plans to convert workhouse THE former Victorian workhouse on the Conununity Hospital site in Saffron Walden is likely to be converted into 36 flats. Uttlesford District Council Development Control Sub-committee is to discuss, at a meeting next month, ...

Published: Thursday 19 March 1998
Newspaper: Saffron Walden Weekly News
County: Essex, England
Type: | Words: 97 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GLORIFIED WORKHOUSE

... GLORIFIED WORKHOUSE The answer he had received several times when he asked old people if they would go into a grouped homes scheme, said Cllor. A. G. Leist, was Do you want to throw us into a glorified workhouse? There was nothing to say the scheme ...

Published: Friday 07 December 1962
Newspaper: Diss Express
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The horrors of the workhouse

... The horrors of the workhouse Mrs. Delilah Lambert (70), of 24 College Square Almshouses, Bury St. Edmunds, is the oldest of a family of eight. She came to Bury in 1926. ...

Published: Friday 24 December 1971
Newspaper: Bury Free Press
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 31 | Page: 5 | Tags: none