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Complaints from Chelsea Workhouse

... Complaints from Chelsea Workhouse A T Westminster Police ' Court on Thursday. before Mr. de Rutzen. William L----, an inmate of Chelsea Workhouse, waft charged on remand with refractory conduct at Chelsea Workhouse . . . When the evidence was being read ...

Published: Friday 09 September 1966
Newspaper: Westminster & Pimlico News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 204 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THOSE WERE THE DAYS! SZVENTY years ago. 300 people turned up at a ratepayers' meet- —when land was lag Maass ..

... turned up at a ratepayers' meet- —when land was Maass Town Hall —to do a Hine-honoured spot of protestk2. ct build a new workhouse A to a mere 215,000 lin Chelsea at a cost of ClOO.OOO was the cause lof their wrath. At the one an acre ! Mr C. Flethain—the ...

To the Editor

... keeping his wife and seven children in our own workhouse. Where is the common sense. let alone the question of humanity, of a system of persecution such as this? The Guardians want to enlarge the workhouse—no wonder, when they act in this way . . . Will ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1966
Newspaper: Westminster & Pimlico News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 187 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE GENTLEMAN PAUPER -WENTAL 7 OR JUST ONE OF THOSE CUSSED FOLK WHO ARE NOT GOING TO BE KICKED AROUND?

... PAUPER At Chelsea Workhouse YESTERDAY (Thursday) morning at Westminster Police Court before Mr. Denman, William L—, a middleaged, respectably dressed little man, was charged with refractory conduct whilst an inmate at Chelsea Workhouse. Daniel W—, the Master ...

Published: Friday 09 September 1966
Newspaper: Westminster & Pimlico News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1607 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

From - Wt..l London Press-Chehea August 28, 1896 ((helsea Gos.ip): The inhabitants of Gertrude Street to a ..

... to establish a workhouse laundry and an approach to a casual ward in their midst. It happens that most of the residents of Gertrude Street are good class. thrifty people who ha% e bought their on houses; and the erection of the workhouse additions really ...

Published: Friday 26 August 1966
Newspaper: Westminster & Pimlico News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The cost

... The cost The arittim , nt at the meeting was that the land for the workhouse project would cost something like £60.000 in Chelsea. whereas if. as it was urged, the establishment were huilt in the country it would cost a fraction of that amount In Surrey ...

SALE OF A SURPLUS WOMAN

... A. Richards asks (Correspondence, February 10) whether there are any more known cases of the sale of a wife. In 1830 a workhouse master named Thomas Godfrey sold a woman by public auction at Epping. She was brought out from the George Inn with a halter ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1966
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 218 | Page: 53 | Tags: none