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... kitchen is probably the most expensive single purchase you make in your home. Yet it wasn't so long ago that it was the ‘workhouse’” — a smoke-filled room best kept out of sight and out of mind. Kitchens today have become the hub of family life, a cosy ...

Published: Friday 10 April 1987
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 185 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUNDAY

... down under of Whicker's World on BBC latB.lo p.m. There he meets John Akister, a 8 man abandoned as an orphan in a Cumbrian workhouse 50 years ago, now a cabinet minister responsible for prisons in New South Wales. He also goes to a high society fancy dress ...

Published: Friday 05 February 1988
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MOVE ON

... high the State decides to introduce a system outmoded in the Middle Ages. Even in the days of Dickens they supplied the Workhouse and all its horrors. But it was shelter and food. Not so under the Thatcher Government who appear to think nothing of the ...

6 HERALD WEEKEND Friday December 19 1986 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Channel 4, 2 p.m.): William Wyler’s Oscar ..

... award-winning musical, starring Ron Moody, Mark Lester, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed, based on the Dickens novel about the workhouse boy Oliver Twist. Made in 1968, the film includes a host of songs such as “Consider Yourself”’, ““Pick a Pocket or Two’’ ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1986
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

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... whatsoever to its predecessor the Viva. The Astra Estate in my opinion is a versatile, comfortable and extremely roomy workhouse. What it lacks in accessories it more than makes up for with its superb performance. My grateful thanks go to Chalmers McQueen ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1980
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 404 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Alexander Pringle — distinguished lawyer and MP

... The Whigs soon began to lose support through legislation like the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, which set up the Union workhouse system in England. ! Pringle was again returned for Selkirkshire in the 1835 General Election. Just how small electorates ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1982
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Boxing Day

... The award-winning musical starring Ron Moody, Mark Lester, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed based on the Dickens’ novel of workhouse boy, Oliver Twist. 7.30 — Border/Tyne Tees: GHOST BUSTERS (1984). Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver and ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1987
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TN RV oL QOOOOOOOO When Quaker KForster came to the Borders

... Donegal he was horrified by what he saw in places such as Carrickupon Shannon, where people were begging to be admitted to the workhouse to be fed. He wrote: “Some of these people had been waiting all day without food, and had nothing to go home to but utter ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1984
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 813 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

STAMPMASTERS

... repay the merchant who had bought it from him, and ‘the other condemned Linens ordered to be cut and given to the Charity Workhouse st Glasgow’. Yet the records show that he was still stampmaster at Falkland in 1781. The Trustees had to deal firmly with ...

Published: Friday 12 February 1988
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 833 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

BBC 2

... award-winning musical starring Ron Moody, Mark Lester, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed, based on the Dickens novel about the workhouse boy, Oliver Twist. Made in 1968, the film includes a [OOWSs P SO BRGSO S SNV LSy rol Reed. 7.40 Cinderella: Rudolph Nureyev’s ...

Published: Friday 25 December 1987
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 758 | Page: 10 | Tags: none