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MERRY MUSICAL MAIDS AT THE WORKHOUSE

... MERRY MUSICAL MAIDS AT THE WORKHOUSE Last Saturday evening Miss Effic Taylor’s “Merry Musical Maids™ repeated at the Stansfield View institution the delightful and picturesque entertainment which they recently gave in the Town Hall with such conspicuous ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1972
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Workhouse museum cash hope

... Workhouse museum cash hope CELLS formerly used to house tramps have moved a step nearer becoming a Victorian Workhouse museum. Ripon Museum Trust plans to turn part of the gatehouse block at Sharow View, Allhallowgate, into a centre focusing on the Poor ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1995
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PUBLIC INSPECTION OF THE WORKHOUSE AND CHILDREN’S HOME

... PUBLIC INSPECTION OF THE WORKHOUSE AND CHILDREN’S HOME The Guardians of the Todmorden Union decided two or three weeks ago to throw open the Union Workhousz and Children’s Home at Mankinholes for public inspection. The total number of visitors each day ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1960
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A far cry from the workhouse

... A far cry from the workhouse About a third of the children also have physical handicaps. taurant in two minutes tlat when we take a group of the children “We can never teach them in the accepted sense. What we have to do is teach them social skills and ...

Published: Friday 23 July 1982
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 773 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOMAN COSTS WORKHOUSE £l,OOO

... WOMAN COSTS WORKHOUSE £l,OOO At the meeting of the local board it was stated that a woman, who recently died at the workhouse, must have cost the institution about £l,OOO during 37 years as a helpless inmate. }She had been an inmate almost ever since ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1966
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Allhallowgate Methodist Church Workhouse Museum

... Allhallowgate Methodist Church Workhouse Museum 7.30-9.30 pm YMCA 11-noon Market Square 11am-2pm Wakeman's House 4pm YMCA 5.30 pm Ripon Catherdral 7.30 pm Holy Trinity Church 7.30 pm Ripon Cathedral 5.30 pm Ripon Cathedral 10.30 am from Ripon Cathedral ...

Victorian ode on jail, death and workhouse

... Victorian ode on jail, death and workhouse IN Victorian times Scarborough had Its own resident poet. He was called Matthew Harman, and he worked as a fisherman before he discovered a talent for pootrr-wrltlng — or maybe discovered that being a poet was ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1994
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

YOUTHS ORDERED TO SUPPORT THEIR FATHER IN THE \ WORKHOUSE

... YOUTHS ORDERED TO SUPPORT THEIR FATHER IN THE \ WORKHOUSE Three brothers, aged 18, 16 and 14, were summoned to show cause why an order should not be made upon them to contribute respectively 2/, 1/6 and 1/- per week towards the maintenance of their father ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1965
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

’-4 ' Mirfield workhouse PEOPLE AND PLACES by GEORGE REDMOINJ DS OUR view what life in the workhouse was like

... ’-4 ' Mirfield workhouse PEOPLE AND PLACES by GEORGE REDMOINJ DS OUR view what life in the workhouse was like is probably coloured by the Oliver Twist or by tales of hardships which have passed into local lore is this picture necessarily untrue even distorted ...

® SHAROW View :':‘wfuturo workhouse museum?(R7443)

... ® SHAROW View :':‘wfuturo workhouse museum?(R7443) Tourism RIPON offers great potential for tourism, argues the trust, being In the centre of a number of major attractions such as the Dales, ~ Lightwater Valley and Newby Hall. Richard Taylor suggested ...

Published: Friday 09 June 1989
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Pupils given a taste of workhouse life

... Pupils given a taste of workhouse life ’ R. R - S )v . P = ‘\os 3 - L T SM 3 f’ »w; 9 - W - g‘¢ kL 8V b a W L 5 3 ik ‘\ > A e 7 i 4 N‘; 1) i : . /3 g Dy T i [8! ) ] ...

Published: Friday 26 September 1997
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 59 | Page: 7 | Tags: none