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... shoe shuffle followed demonstrated West-cott and Gordon White Melodrama Brian Baker’s dramatic recitation It was Christmas Workhouse” brought loud applause most the cast took The Minstrel Show” mimed melodrama Again” by Tony Best Susan Burningham Muriel ...
... 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 ...
... hours Jury returned a verdict in accordance On Sunday evening two women refractory characters inmates the Liskeard union workhouse on leaving the chapel exhibited some improper conduct and being expostulated with by the master of the house Miss Mutton ...
... 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 ...
... Greenshields of 82 Hornchurch-road Ernesettle pleaded guilty to stealing 5£cwt of lead sheeting worth £14 17s 3d from the old workhouse in Union-road Torpoint and was gaoled for a month after the bench had heard of bis four other convictions for larceny Mr ...
... 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 ...
... was Saturday last for the fourth time committed to Bodmin Gaol for 21 days’ hard labour for absconding from the Falmouth workhouse with the Union clothes his third offence only expired last Thursday week he is young and fearfully lazy scoundrel and it ...
... Mental illness, she declared, was still closely associated with violence in the minds of many people —a left-over from the workhouse era, mental hospitals should not be said Mrs. L. Brunt at the weeklureaux workers at the Trecarn Killed in a fog crash Peter ...