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WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Before the war the formula for treating the homeless was simpledestitution equals institution. It you were dove and out, for whatever the reason, it was the workhouse. Either that. or you slunk away to some rotten cellar and tried to eke out ...

Published: Tuesday 02 May 1967
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 80 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE TREAT

... WORKHOUSE TREAT The inmates of the workhouse at Jericho are, we are glad to learn, to have their customary dinner on Christmas Day. In this respect our poor will be attended to in a satisfactory manner and it is gratitying to know that while feasting ...

Published: Friday 16 December 1966
Newspaper: Heywood Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 61 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE SUPPLIES

... WORKHOUSE SUPPLIES The tender for meat has been divided between Mr Swailes and Mr Whittam, the former offering to supply meat at 8d per pound and bones at is 8d per score. Thomas Fletcher 's tender was accepted for coals—engine coal at 7s Cid per ton ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1966
Newspaper: Heywood Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 97 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE NURSE

... WORKHOUSE NURSE At the fortnightly meeting of the Bury Guardians, on Wednesday. Fred Shore of Heap Bridge, was elected 'I nurse for the male imbecile ward at a salary of CIO per annum with rations. The contest for the appointment lay between Shore and ...

Published: Friday 24 November 1961
Newspaper: Heywood Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

PART OF A WORKHOUSE

... PART OF A WORKHOUSE The Centre was originally part of a orkhouse and this it still is. The men without a settled way of life are accommodated in a number of cell - type rooms on either side of a passage. In each cell is a bed and locker. Accommodation ...

Published: Wednesday 18 March 1964
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Christmas Day II in the workhouse whatever next?

... Christmas Day II in the workhouse whatever next? ft Christmas Day in the Workhouse. And' What comes next in the original version ? Not many of us know to-day, but in Victoria's day every young man and bewhiakered uncle could get up on Sunday afternoons ...

Published: Thursday 02 November 1967
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 319 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OCTOBER 27 A BOER RISING ... A WORKHOUSE SCANDAL NEWS 1879

... OCTOBER 27 A BOER RISING A WORKHOUSE SCANDAL NEWS 1879 The Liverpool Echo was born on a blustery damp day on October 27, 1879, at a time when the Boers were rising in South Africa, the Russians were getting a hiding from the Turcomans and English ...

Published: Monday 27 October 1969
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 349 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

make fascinating reading: '.' The boys in the workhouse have eaten 2.184 loaves. .. • Three quarters of a ton

... make fascinating reading: '.' The boys in the workhouse have eaten 2.184 loaves. .. • Three quarters of a ton of sausages have been eaten in the thieves' kitchen. •.• Sean Kenny's revolving set has travelled 178 miles. ••• The wooden rail thumped by Bill ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1966
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

centre

... theatre was originally the workhouse masters' dining room and sitting room. No 2 theatre was also upgraded from original workhouse rooms Theatres 3 and 4 originally formed part of out-patients' clinics. The original workhouse bakery is now the archives ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1967
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 430 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

* * *

... relief outstripped the Bote House's' capacity, and, in 1732, the first Liverpool Workhouse I was built at the corner of I Hanover Street and College Lane—hence the name Workhouse Lane. In those days Duke Street was no more than a country path. An unmade road ...

Published: Tuesday 23 November 1965
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 428 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Heywood the past 100 YEARS From the Neywono of 9 November BOARD OF GUARDIANS A letter was read st meeting

... the number of patients In the asylum this number, how mail it be lawful to into the workhouse said that there %yds individual in the might not be remo‘..ri workhouse. He could any reason why the% be as well attended e as in the asylum. 75 Front the Heywood ...

Published: Friday 10 November 1967
Newspaper: Heywood Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 90 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

How Liverpool cares

... an impression left by 8.8. C.-I's Scrutiny which in examining the welfare of the elderly, contrasted Liverpool's ex - workhouse Westminster House with Lathbury House, one of the city's more modern homes for the aged. The importance of appearances and ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1967
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 167 | Page: 14 | Tags: none