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... The workhouse Whether this was out of use or another was required was not stated when, in 1684, it was ordered that another workhouse and house of correction was to be set up. Money and rents which the Corporation decided upon were to be put to use to ...
... WORKHOUSE INMATES CELEBRATE ROYAL WEDDING Mr. T. Ashton, Chairman of the Todmorden Board of Guardians, gave the inmates of Stansfield View Institution and Children’s Home an excellent tea on Tuesday to celebrate the wedding of Princess Mary. Mrs. J. A ...
... CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE At a meeting of the Todmorden Board of Guardians it was decided to accept the offer of Walsden Chorch Choir to give an entertainnent on New Year's Day to commence at three ‘o'clock in the sfternoon. It was also decided to provide ...
... ENTERTAINMENT AT THE WORKHOUSE ~ An instructive and pleasing entertainment was given at Beggarington. Mr. Wilkinson Pickles, of Gads Hill, Halifax, gave his wonderful and descriptive account of his tour through the Holy Land and Continental return home ...
... WORKHOUSE INMATES There were 114 inmates in the Todmorden Workhouse, including 21 imbeciles or idiots. During the course of two weeks there had been 78 vagrants—seven children, 19 women and 52 men. ...
... Workhouse shadow Without a pension of any kind, unless a working man could find employment into an through old age, the shadow of the workhouse loomed ever larger. Sometimes independence was maintained by a multitude of small things bringing in pennies ...
... Workhouse INnto workshop IT WAS a couple of years ago that Thirsk workhouse was called “a derelict monstrosity” and councillors expressed the need to do something about the old building which did nothing to enhance Thirsk's eastern approach. Since then ...
... MERRY MUSICAL MAIDS AT THE WORKHOUSE Last Saturday evening Miss Effic Taylor’s “Merry Musical Maids™ repeated at the Stansfield View institution the delightful and picturesque entertainment which they recently gave in the Town Hall with such conspicuous ...
... MERRY MUSICAL MAIDS AT THE WORKHOUSE Last Saturday evening Miss Effic Taylor’s “Merry Musical Maids™ repeated at the Stansfield View institution the delightful and picturesque entertainment which they recently gave in the Town Hall with such conspicuous ...
... Return of the Workhouse — as museum piece ? RIPON Civic Society wants to see a revival of the Poor Law Workhouse in the city — as the centrepiece of a museum based on the old geriatric hospital at Sharow View and coupled to a development scheme to make ...
... ’-4 ' Mirfield workhouse PEOPLE AND PLACES by GEORGE REDMOINJ DS OUR view what life in the workhouse was like is probably coloured by the Oliver Twist or by tales of hardships which have passed into local lore is this picture necessarily untrue even distorted ...
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