... Looking like workhouse Oxley (Wolverhamp's was once classed as 4 dential area. It has b deteriorating for along ! although still rated '€} To make itlook more 0f eyesore, _the council @ building front walls 1 houses; that makes 17 look more like a workhou ...

... A case of Christmas Day in the workhouse! It’'s Christmas Day in the workhouse for league clubs up and down the country and Wolves, Birmingham and Albion are no exception. The importance of the holiday games, there are iwo in 24 hours, was highlighted ...

... 'Be'mg born in a workhouse was bad enough, but when he was sent to the Royal Orphanage at Wolverhampton it was a stigma he never over- ...

... PICK YOUR own Peas at Awbridge Farm, Trysull, mear Old ‘Workhouse. 27 RACING STABLE requires Experienced Single Stableman, good rider, not over 9st 7lb; top wages and presents; modern hostel. — Apply D. Candy, Kingstone Warren, Wantage, Berks. Uffington ...

... Children study problem Pupils from five Wolverhampton schools spent today in the “workhouse” at a special conference to explore 20th-century social problems. The course, organised by social studies staff at Bilston College of Further Education, included ...

... Wc He takes 1 to play to the geriat books and children. “When I as a lay pre was still ¢ Workhouse,’ is why son people are 1o hospital, think they : workhouse.” Mr. Hawtl IR Brooklands-: dist Church the Mayfi Park. Before he nse walk isited the veek ...

... cabinets, buresux etc Full or part homes bought and cleared Billinghay 229 WORKHOUSES. Researcher would | appreciate lnsy information re childhood in Sleaford / Bourne workhouses to 1914, — Stead, 3 Beverliey Grove, North Hykeham. Cc 2 Radio, TV & Music ...

... Stigma He was born in 1907 in a workhouse in Hereford, where his parents were master and matron. His father died when Gilbert was onl}i' five, and he spent his childhood and youth surrounded by females. He blamed this upbringin’fix for his homosexuality ...

... smoking, no television and everybody out to walk the streets during the day—whatever the weather. Buildings used include old workhouses, former pelice stations—and a former morgue. Bare walls, bare floors, no ...

... by Lvone and skin disorders, were so great that he was called The Elephant Man. After being abandoned by his mother in a workhouse, his only chance of earning a living was as a freak exhibit at fairgrounds and at circuses. Unfit for the public gaze, except ...

... ANSWERS TO LOCAL QUIZ A woman’s cap; also applied o a night (or sleeping) ca];or The workhouse; or home indigent poor. He's very rough. Poorly clad. Dr:l':‘dc-in one's best c!ot.hes. Insipid or ta:eles; (distilled Water for instance). Similar to No. ...

... twice a week, and could go out of the grounds once a month as long as they were accompanied. The people would work in the Workhouse for 1s a week. Miss Moody was the first paid hand in the laundry — before that, all the work was done by the inhabitants ...