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THE WORKHOUSE DONKEY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

Workhouse Terror

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 12 December 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1528 | Page: 81 | Tags: none

in 'workhouses'

... 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 homeā€”and bigger ...

Published: Monday 02 September 1963
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 202 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Workhouse

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1968
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 164 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... 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 ...

The ' workhouse '

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1963
Newspaper: Holloway Press
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

workhouse'

... workhouse' ...

Published: Friday 12 February 1960
Newspaper: Norwood News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

To workhouse

... To workhouse On being told that the tribunal was unable to consider this application for extension of security. Mr. Hal!worth-Fagan said that he and his wife would have to go into a workhouse. Mrs. H. M. Butlin. chairman. explained that the council ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1962
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 294 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

BACK TO WORKHOUSE?

... BACK TO WORKHOUSE? Sir. At last we know where we stand with our new 10t. I refer to the City of Westminster Old People's Association, and the Westminster City Council as a whole. What a bunch! What a contemptible thing to do: increase the charge of ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1965
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BUILT AS WORKHOUSE

... BUILT AS WORKHOUSE This one was constructed as a workhouse and the best that can be said about it today is that it has the look and the smell of a fairly well managed hospital. We believe that the institutional atmosphere which hangs about it cannot be ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1963
Newspaper: South Western Star
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Contrast with the workhouse

... Contrast with the workhouse A LMOST 250 ears ago Hammersmith cared for its poor in a King Street workhouse. There, 132 boys made fruit baskets. shoes and clothes. In their spare time they were taught the basic rudiments of reading. writing and spelling ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1968
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 261 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

SHOCK OVER WORKHOUSES

... SHOCK OVER WORKHOUSES happen in an old workhouse only a few months ago: An old woman. newly arrived. threw a few extra lumps of coal on a fire because she felt cold. Immediately a woman attendant advanced hand on hip and shouted: Who are you to touch ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1962
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 104 | Page: 5 | Tags: none