... preface to the work, and it ends with a modern but little known one, which speaks of the Christ-child coming in cold-as-workhouse weather, poor as a Salford child. Although the Cathedral setting was an appropriate one. its size made almost impossible ...

... Sowerberrys and Michael Attwell as a toweringly tall, incorrigibly violent Bill Sikes The extremely important younger element, workhouse boys and Fagin's apprentice thieves, are led appealingly by Marcus D'Amico or Alan Younger as Oliver himself and Stephen ...

... amenities may have aggravated the problem but the statement here is that it is people who make the slums not the buildings. The 'workhouse mentality' carry, bred in them, their own destruction. To people like the O'Shaughnessys and the Slaters thieving is the ...