... THE WORKHOUSE Mr. Ranson said that Stansfic'ldl View was built as a workhouse and, as was the practice in the days when it was built, it was stuck up on the hillside in bleak surroundings and made as unattractive as possible externally. Whep it was handed ...

... The workhouse Whether this was out of use or another was required was not stated when, in 1684, it was ordered that another workhouse and house of correction was to be set up. Money and rents which the Corporation decided upon were to be put to use to ...

... THE WORKHOUSE Todmorden Board of Guardians decided to seek borrowing powers to defray the cost of the extension to the Workhouse and Hospital and for the purchase of Spencer House Farm and a part of Langfield Common, CHURCH PROPERTY “Church property and ...

... 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 ...

... WORKHOUSE INMATES CELEBRATE ROYAL WEDDING Mr. T. Ashton, Chairman of the Todmorden Board of Guardians, gave the inmates of Stansfield View Institution and Children’s Home an excellent tea on Tuesday to celebrate the wedding of Princess Mary. Mrs. J. A ...

... 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 ...

... CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE At a meeting of the Todmorden Board of Guardians it was decided to accept the offer of Walsden Chorch Choir to give an entertainnent on New Year's Day to commence at three ‘o'clock in the sfternoon. It was also decided to provide ...

... 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 ...

... ENTERTAINMENT AT THE WORKHOUSE A number of the children attend-l ing the infants’ department of Room- | field Board School were conveyed to the workhouse in three waggonettes, ‘provided by the managers and a few friends, and gave a most excellent‘ and ...

... 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 INMATES There were 114 inmates in the Todmorden Workhouse, including 21 imbeciles or idiots. During the course of two weeks there had been 78 vagrants—seven children, 19 women and 52 men. ...