... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ' ...

... 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 ...

... ask for more? Klttybrewster puptl Richard Cameron (left) and Nall Troup beg the question from the famous mealtlme-ln-lhe- workhouse scene. . ■ff'l ■ ...

... 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.”, . ...

... 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 ...

... in Scotland since the 19405. It is a study of a fishing village in Suffolk in the days of workhouses. Peter Grimes is fisherman who takes boys from workhouses and is cruel them. The society have been rehearsing for the opera since January and Anthony ...

... after thi Duke. This Edward became Victoria’s fattier. 1797; Death of tippling “Sir Jeffrey Dunstan. A fpui raised In ttie workhouse of St stan’s Church, he became i collector and, although dirt] crippled, married a “fair nympl first came to fame as “mayi ...