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... the story of the workhouse time when workhouses ceased to ' custody iuntil Wednesday. • there as revealed by the book en- function a.s such, around 1835. Joseph Campbell (44 ) . plastic tries. One of these old untitled Although Workhouses were moulder. of ...
... Guardians on August 29th, Miss Emily Uttley, of Liverpool, a native of Todmorden, was appointed assistant matron at the workhouse at a salary of £lO a year with rations, apartments, etc, ...
... and age. The two charities—workhouse and almshouses/school — were carried on independently. for rather more than a century, until 1777 when they were united and vested as an entity in 16 governors. At this time, the workhouse was taken over by the Halifax ...
... 15th inst., aged 67 years, Johp Wild, Joshua Street. Todmorden. On the 15th inst., aged 81 vyears, Thomas Baylis, Union Workhouse. ...
... COLLINGS, the Sunderland chairman, told the annual meetof his club last night that ht would sooner be at the door of the workhouse with Sunderland back in the First Division than in the Second Division with money in the bank. He was referring, of course ...
... 50 YEARS AGO FROM OUR FILES FOR 1914 TODMORDEN UNION WORKHUUSE The officers and inmates of the Workhouse Infirmary and Children’s Home were entertained by Mr. Clarence W. Greenwood, Castle Hall, Cragg Vale, to a sumptuous tea. Each male inmate was also ...
... Wright and her three children had to return to ‘their native district. with no home but the workhouse. and there her fourth son was born. She left the workhouse as soon as she was able. Absolutely penniless, she was allowed to live in a oneroomed hovel ...
... renowned benefaction, the United Charities of Nat haniel Waterhouse, founder of two funds governing the establishment of a workhouse, almshouses and a school, the Blue Coat School, in Halifax. Best known of his benefactions is that of the school. ...
... Sowerby Welcome Club. They went first to Beech Towers, Batley, where there is accommodation for 300 people. It was formerly a workhouse and was taken over by the West Riding County Council in 1945, Improvements which have been carried out were explained by ...
... oldest block, built as Halifax ,Union Workhouse in the late 1111303, when township workhouses were abolished._ In the course of years. the building was extensively enlarged, and this centre served is the Union Workhouse until legislatio n transferred Poor-law ...
... patient, I would rather be at Northowram than at St. John’s. St. John’s was built as a workhouse and, despite atbemigts to br'fi?ten it up, still looks like a workhouse. ...
... RELIEF FIGURES The weekly return of pauperism showed 102 persons in the Workhouse, 40 in the infirmary and 10 in the children’s home, a total of 152 compared with 167 in the corresponding period of the previous year. This report was given at the fortnightly ...