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The spectre of the workhouse

... The spectre of the workhouse BEFORE the state pension was introduced, the spectre of the workhouse haunted the old. They feared it more than death itself. Indeed, some literally starved themselves to death to avoid ever passing through its gates. Within ...

Published: Monday 30 January 1989
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Bring back ‘The Workhouse’

... them with Workhouse. The advantages of the workhouse are that you can keep all the old. infirm, disabled. mentally ill, down and outs, and one-parent families under one roof, thereby doing away with the need for a Welfare State. The workhouse would need ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Britten

... performed In Scotland since the 19605. “It Is study of a fishing village In Suffolk In the days of workhouses. Peter Grimes is a fisherman who takes boys from workhouses and Is cruel to them.” The society have been rehearsing for the opera since January and Anthony ...

Published: Monday 17 March 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Britten opera set to take the stage A PRODUCTION of Benjamin Britten s opera Peter Grimes Is to be performed

... in Scotland since the 19605. It is a study of a fishing village In Suffolk In the days of workhouses. Peter Orlmes Is a fisherman who takes boys from workhouses and cruel to them. The society have been rehearsing for the opera since January and Anthony ...

Published: Monday 17 March 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

6.00 NORTH TONIGHT

... Victorian workhouse struck terror into the hearts of sick paupers who feared they might be sent there. These dreaded places provided their only hope of free medical treatment, and now to the thanks of campaigners like Florence Nightingale, the workhouse hospitals ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FLASHBACK

... the best of then cloth for uniforms for his soldiers. Over the next few decades, several attempts were made to revive the workhouse but without success, and the idea was finally abandoned in 1711. ' ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Help

... SIR.— John Gray's ideas on pulling the old. infirm, disabled. mentally ill. down and outs and one-parent families into the workhouse are sick. A hatred for those who can't take care of themselves seems to be growing among some of those who are the more able ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

3 GREAT STUART STREET

... cupboard, Bathroom; and Upstairs—3 Double Bedrooms, one with a shelved cupboard, and Kitchenette off. Outside — 2 Sheds, Workhouse, W.C., Drying area. The asking price is £7,000 and the R.V. is £199. ...

Crooner

... war,” he told me, “and a sort °I revue called ‘Prepare To Shed Them Now,’ lull ol weepy monologues •Christmas Day In The;Workhouse. Some of these things have become a sort ot Joke now, but they can stul be very , moving when they’re done straight.”, . ...

Published: Monday 16 May 1983
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MP’s

... is to raise in Parliament his claim that Blackburn children are being served up worse school dinners than those eaten by workhouse vagrants 50 years: ago. Mr Jack Straw, Labour MP for Blackburn, said he protest personally, “in the strongest possible terms ...

Published: Monday 02 February 1981
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 344 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Handyman Wanted to Purchase and Renovate 3 GREAT STUART STREET

... cupboard, Bathroom; and Upstairs—3 Double Bedrooms, one with a shelved cupboard, and Kitchenette off. Outside — 2 Sheds, Workhouse, W.C., Drying area. The asking price is £7,000 and the R.V. is £199. Spacious family home overlooking the Links and commanding ...