... AT THE WORKHOUSE On Christmas Day the inmates of the Wharfedale Union Workhouse. about one hundred in number, sat down excellent dinner of roast beef, plum pudding etc., and for once in a wav the usual regulations as to quantity were set aside and the ...

... assembled 0 Order held at the Workhouse on the Ist and Agree to take & provide a March 1781. pursuant to Notice & House which shall be convenient Advertisement for chusing a for a School and for a Muter to Master of the Workhouse. Richard reside in at the ...

... Born at the workhouse Harding tells his story well, without undue modesty or brusque selfassertion. He was born.in 1907 at the Union Workhouse, Hereford, but not poverty: his father was the master and his mother the matron. In he was treated as Important ...

... The Southowram Workhouse By ARTHUR PORRITT PART IV be which this shilling forfeit to be put.. which appear in an oddly- On August 12th. 1756 it WU spelt entry made at the meeting •rdered?: • That a Daily Register-on March 2nd that year. 1758. It of ...

... Way to the workhouse? LEEDS reader passes on to me the following scrap conversation which .-he overheard while waiting in a tram (iueue behind a young man and old couple. You see. granddad. said the young man, there's many of in the unions nowadays ...

... The Southowram Workhouse By ARTHUR PORRITT I Jeremy Lister not constituting ant ,Part of the Meeting on the 7th .october. 1777. may be sufficiently filg v i o ured y ' shown by applying to the persons m in e ott adyearhspre usl themselves. Jeremy Lister ...

... FUTURE WORKHOUSES? To a questioner who asked: Are you afraid of the past? Mr. Taylor replied: We have a better record than any other party in the matter of social reform. What sort of houses are you going to build—workhouses? shouted a woman. ...

... In and out of workhouse The lined lace the 77-year-old woman who only bad Is. 6d. left when she had paid for bare necessities out of her 335. weekly pension and allowances, broke into smiles when she was presented with £1 from the moneysent the Hull reader ...

... Workhouse shadow Without a pension of any kind, unless a working man could find employment into an through old age, the shadow of the workhouse loomed ever larger. Sometimes independence was maintained by a multitude of small things bringing in pennies ...

... Better in workhouse For what reply, short of the bludgeon of its small majority, could the Government give to Captain Crookshank's attack? We have dropped from a pre-war average of 260 z. of meat per head per week to some soz. Even the workhouse ration in ...

... Workhouse INnto workshop IT WAS a couple of years ago that Thirsk workhouse was called “a derelict monstrosity” and councillors expressed the need to do something about the old building which did nothing to enhance Thirsk's eastern approach. Since then ...

... Tales from the workhouse BY RICHARD TAYLOR CHAIRMAN RIPON MUSEUM TRUST WORKHOUSE LIFE WHAT a wonderful weekend we have had at the Workhouse! For the first time since it closed as an institution, the vagrants' wards have been alive with the sounds and ...