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... THE WORKHOUSE Todmorden Board of Guardians decided to seek borrowing powers to defray the cost of the extension to the Workhouse and Hospital and for the purchase of Spencer House Farm and a part of Langfield Common, CHURCH PROPERTY “Church property and ...
... 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 ...
... Road station at Chorlton. It took a production team ten days to work their transtormation. A British Railways generalduties workhouse-engine was dressed up with cow-catcher and headlamp. The singerstaking a night off from their British tour—and the 500~ strong ...
... financial and_ otherwise, have been caused through Labour leglslnuon and mismanagement. “Let's Go With Labour!” Where? To the workhouse! Labour will push us even deeper into the mire.—Yours, etc., Adsum 84. o ...
... mentally, or both. Alderman Dryden Brook said many old people had once feared old age because it had meant their going to the workhouse. The wind of change had been blowing and, today they had seen the fruition of many things which had been fought for. “This ...
... cope for them‘selves or the married children had too large a family to cope with them also — that “ awesome horror ” the Workhouse openeq its jaws and that was that. Of course, to-day there ‘are pensions for the aged, they pay ‘their way—but, God help ...
... System,” which is in the Todmorden Library, should be read by every schoolboy.-It is a far cry from the exploitation of the workhouse children in- factories to*the extra four shillings for the pensioner at Christmas, but it is doubtful which of the two has ...
... YEARS AGO FROM OUR FILES FOR 1889 WURKHOUSE EXTENSIONS Final plang and estimates for the extensions at the Beggarington Workhouse were approved at a special meeting of Todmorden Board of Guardians. The total estimated cost of the work ig £5,714. YOUNG ...
... the Halifax Board of Guardians had agreed to a Trecommendation of its house committee “to emigrate a girl inmate of the workhouse, of 17 years, from Halifax to Canada through the Salvation Army.” The Tetrarch, it was rumoured, was to be scratched from ...
... sister and yesterday after 31 years service in the same hospital retired Sister Greenley remembers the hospital it was a Work-house and has seen many changes in methods and equipment People think nurses have a hard time of it now have seen the conditions ...
... YOU’LL BE TO SAY RING CAME FROM— Trying to savings HALF THE ELDERLY POPULATION in United Kingdom were still living Victorian workhouses” and old as a whole were receiving pensions which were a disgrace to a civilised nation” said Mr R L G Chester lecturer ...
... through Halifax. Labour legislation and mismanage- Victoria Hall, ment. “Let’s Go With Labour! the reopening Where? To the workhouse! opportunity to Labour will push us even deeper ith the switch-|into the mire.—Yours, ete., ttl ,Mx'ihßucklgg Adsum 84. t ...