... THE WORKHOUSE DONKEY Scenes from John Arden's new play-- at the Copacabana Club. Below left: Frank Finlay as the Donkey himself, an old Labour town councillor. Below Robert Stephens, Alison Leggatt and Marion Mathie THE third production of this year's ...

... Workhouse Terror Born on one side of the dividing pale in a country parish, I never really knew or understood emotions and proceedings on the other side: working man's club the vicar, the Primitive and proceedings on the other side: the working man's ...

... THE WORKHOUSE There was, however, one house shown as having 75 inhabitant , . That was the workhoust:. This was only the fourth census to be taken the first was in 1801. and then they followed at 10 year intervals. A short introduction state' This book ...

... in their own homes where-, Ofllcially workhouses w e r e ever possible. abolished in 1948. But the pamph- The pamphlet suggests a new let dwells on the gloom of today's, grade of nurse to look after old workhouse-type homes. people at home—and bigger ...

... WORKHOUSE Those worthy people who wasdered. whilst ranged on the leg of a turkey or the win et a on Christmas Day. how the poor in the Workhouse were faring, bad so for asisgiviags. If al the poor did as well as thaw he the Chelsea Workhouse it nay readily ...

... Workhouse A visit to e Paddington workhouse when he 14 prompted hint to devote his life to haPini the under - privileged. He was taken to the workhouse by his blind father. who had friends there. He was six goers old when his lather Lost his sight. At ...

... 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 ...

... The Workhouse Writing with regard to the disposal of the Workhouse property the Ministry stated that, as the Council did not wish to purchase the portion of thé property in which they had been interested, they were now offering the entire property to ...

... The ' workhouse ' The large home. which Miss Meadows calls the workhouse is so terrifying to her because she has always kept herself to herself. Ever since she was the head gardener's eldest daughter she has been in service with good families ...

... 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 ...

... in the workhouse And for Mr. John Packwood, it was Christmas Day in the workhouse with a newly-won bride. Mr. Packwood was a half-pay cornet in Her Majesty's service, and was also Master of the Union Workhouse, Burton, and he married Miss Jane Phillips ...

... idea of asking to be taken into the workhouse. “They were told that there was a meeting of the Guardians at the workhouse in Burtonroad, Sedgley, and arranged to meet by the monument in Castle-hill. ~ “Much to my surprise, something like 2,000 turned ...