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... some steps from the bottom of Paris Street These are screened by some sheets of corrugated iron First workhouse Near the spot once stood the first workhouse Exeter had It came into existence through a direction in the will of Canon John C Bury who died in ...
... however laborious the duties required of them Charles Dickens On one occasion when Wakley was holding an inquest in a parish workhouse Charles Dickens was one of the jurymen and his account of the proceedings is a characteristic comment on the times The beadle” ...
... some money The more we encourage that habit the more likely we are keep Britain a couple of jumps away from the door of the workhouse In the cold chamber at the Motor Industry Research Association’s headquarters at Nuneaton BP scientists make a cold start ...
... primroses in full bloom were gathered a gentleman in this neighbourhood on Saturday last CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE: The paupers in the workhouse were on Christmas Day regaled with a good dinner of roast beef and plum pudding (From Wool-mer’s Exeter and ...
... articles accused that body twisted balusters a handrail wasting money in the administra- gently curving upward at each the workhouse which turn and a panelling following the was “nothing better than same line which are typical of the a prison” early 18th ...
... ned tramp brown and bearded who walked the countryside accountable no one sleeping rough in the summer moving from workhouse workhouse in the winter Tramps are fewer now perhaps they cannot stand all the traffic our country roads but many men and women ...
... of lift at the hospital which had been put back until 1966-67 Mr Davey said that everyone knew that Belmont was a former workhouse and added “We know there is a lot that could be done but considering state of the hospital when it came under the control ...
... the Poor Law and under an Act of 1782 it was made possible for parishes to form themselves into unions for the building of workhouses There were important develop- ments of these provisions in the nineteenth century and also in the legislative field Then ...
... EXETER TEL 58532 Also 101 HIGH STREET CREDITON 223pp 13s 6d) In Fighting Man” by Henry Treece an old man in a late Victorian workhouse looks back over his younger days as promising prize-fighter in the rakishly elegant Regency period among pugilists highwaymen ...
... a kind of Wall separated need for another offlicence shap the men from the women at the at Honiton which had 15 public workhouse whtch is now Redhills ! hoUses a quarter 0f mile sorry GARDEN PARTY AT UFFCULME The lawn of the Uffculme Congregational Manse ...
... always been great poverty in Exeter which probably reached its lowest point during the nineteenth century There was the Workhouse it is true but most of the poor resented feared this institution Besides this a number voluntary societies had grown up city ...
... chapel for storing” The chapel was used for worship in 1958 With ty for over 100 worshippers people living outside the old Workhouse once attended services there There are only scats the temporary chapel in secretary's old office This is because most of ...