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Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
£1,520 to repair old workhouse
... £1,520 to repair old workhouse The Uxbridge Engineer and Surveyor has been authorized to issue a licence to make the old Harefleld workhouse in Breakspear-road fit. for habitation. Several years ago the council considered demolishing the building. Now ...
Tough schedule for workhouse boy
... Tough schedule for workhouse boy MAT MEW Dower looking forward to being adstraded and starved the cowing months. Not, of course, for real, but in Oliver! the West End musical production of Oliver Twist. Matthew, 10, beat hundreds of hopefUls to land a ...
Judith Bourke visited the society to talk about the workhouse between 1905-1926. 'this was followed at the next ..
... Judith Bourke visited the society to talk about the workhouse between 1905-1926. 'this was followed at the next meeting by an open evening where display tables were on show by Middlesex Heraldry and Ruislip Local History Society. At the next meeting on ...
bMo . Nearly gets:riicedrre old parish register with the description. He also tells bow the heoases d the old ..
... bMo . Nearly gets:riicedrre old parish register with the description. He also tells bow the heoases d the old workhouse followlas the custom, were reeled owl like cattle by the year. la earlier diries. foamy curloss °lleac= are recorded. There I, eves ...
E.B. REED & CO LTD IF4L BRICK SPECIAL SI COURT LANE ESTATES THORNEY LANE NORTH Tel IVER 653355 Life in the ..
... E.B. REED & CO LTD BRICK SPECIAL SI COURT LANE ESTATES THORNEY LANE NORTH Tel IVER 653355 Life in the workhouse THE OLD Ruislip Workhouse in Ducks Hill has a well docu- by Steve Hook mented history of nearly 200 of the Poor John Birch and Benja- The decision ...
News & Advertising 01895 451000 Classified 01895 451027 He told members Hillingdon workhouse was built on the ..
... poor and elderly, and as more work became available, the number of paupers dwindled. The use of the workhouse gradually changed until 1930 when workhouses were added to the ministry of health, and it became Hillingdon County Hospital and Infirmary, spreading ...
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... on THE poor and needy in Ruis once had a workhouse to turn for food and shelter. The Grade II listed building. whi still stands in Ducks Hill Roi housed paupers until 1834. The need for the workhouse w first raised at a meeting of chur officials on July ...
No harshness
... Ruislip, Ickenham, and Northolt be sent to the workhouse at Ruislip until the Union workhouse was ready for their reception. Hillingdon purchased On August 5 the guardians decided to purchase the workhouse at Hillingdon for the use of the Union. Tenders ...
Memory Lane Home for poor
... stockings once a wek and clean sheets once a month. The workhouse was only used for its original purpose for 50 years until new legislation sent them to another workhouse at Hillingdon. The old workhouse was then sold into private hands and at some point was ...
Prison-like
... parish officers of Hillingdon and the trustees of the poors' ground to sell the old workhouse and garden for £3OO and four acres of land for £6OO. Tenders for the new workhouse were found to exceed the amount the Guardians were able to raise, and the plan ...
The first governor, John Burbridge. was in charge for 16 years. He had to ensure each pauper had a Sunday
... Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 marked the beginning of the end for the workhouse, with the abolition of independent parish poor relief. In 1838, paupers were moved to a new central workhouse in Hillingdon and the Ruislip building was sold at public auction ...