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GLORIOUSOLIVER

... break from being on stage. The principal characters (above) from ‘‘Oliver’’. IT IS dinner time in the seedy surrounding of a workhouse in 19th century London. Suddenly, one wafer-thin orphan gets to his feet and heads unsteadily towards the bumptious beadle ...

Published: Friday 10 April 1987
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 263 | Page: 9 | 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

Credit reform

... Credit reform 21 Buckstone Crescent, Edinburgh, September 24, 1981 Sir, — George McCarth per:z‘pnlen 5:0 Weltmysm.e. to workhouse, but 1 wonder how - soon he &m grasp the possibility that proper thing to do w*th is not to insure it but to abolish it. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1981
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

NEGOCIANT'S

... NEGOCIANT'S ON TWO FLOORS TONIGHT: WORKHOUSE Pius live music in our restaurant 45-47 LOTHIAN STREET, EDINBURGH {opposite Bristo Square). Tel 225 6313 WEWER—R)W S Corte TUES, JUNE 30 T 0 SAT, AUGUST 1 (excl Sundays) RUSSELL HUNTER and ANNA PRICE ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 15 | 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

POPULAR NUMBERS

... POPULAR NUMBERS The storyline will be familiar to many. Workhouse kids in down-at-heel London get the show under way with a fanfare of ‘Food, Glorious Food' — every word discernible—to set the tone for Lionel Bart's evergreen piece. Songs like ‘Where ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1986
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Stars

... Stars Predictably, Oliver and the young stars who play the workhouse children and, Flfjn's band of young villains, steal the show. Beverly Wood made an excellent Oliver and looked calm and confident when she tackled her three major songs ‘“Where Is Love’’ ...

Published: Friday 10 April 1987
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Sun after 9 pm, adm €1 9 VICTORIA STREET LIVE TONIGHT THE STUPIDS and CATERAN SUNDAY AFRICAN PREVIEW NIGHT, WITH

... €1 9 VICTORIA STREET LIVE TONIGHT THE STUPIDS and CATERAN SUNDAY AFRICAN PREVIEW NIGHT, WITH SOMO SOMO ORCHESTRA JAZIRA WORKHOUSE Admission £5. Late Licence and Disco | |||u.|-:|e:i:}s \‘llllm\; ) illlli TOMORROW, AUGUST 8 Live on stage — chartbusting ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 58 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

100 YEARS AGO

... 100 YEARS AGO Christmas Day in the Union Workhouse: The inmates were supplied with a good dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, &c., by the House Comittee. Mr G. B. H. Hay of Hayfield, who is presently in Edinburgh, sent them buns for their tea, also ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1989
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Chris Potter will be holding at the Adam Smith Theatre on June 3 at 4.45 p.m. for his forthcoming production

... holding at the Adam Smith Theatre on June 3 at 4.45 p.m. for his forthcoming production of (August 20-30) OLIVER ARTFUL DODGER WORKHOUSE BOYS / FAGAN'S GANG Boys preferred — girls considered Age approx. 9-13 years Dancing experience not essential but good movement ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1986
Newspaper: Glenrothes Gazette
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 72 | Page: 28 | Tags: none