... Workhouse The former Dunstable Workhouse in High Street South. It closed in 1836 when it was amalgamated with Luton. The row of buildings is now partly occupied by Dunstable Lock and Safe company. Grove House, built in 1750 as the Duke of Bedford The ...

... establishment of Parish Workhouses in Biggleswade and the surrounding DO 0 The passing of the Poor Law An?endment Act in 1834 brought the. Union Workhouses into being of which The Limes in London Road was an enm&l;l The Parish Workhouses passed into private ...

... the workhouse children did not belong to the parish and it could hardly be expected that they should be admitted at the same rates as the children belonging to the parish. The Rev. C. E. Haslam considered that it would be a benefit to the workhouse children ...

... Penny drops A COIN collector who found an unusual workhouse token has been rewarded by Bedford Museum — ten years later. Pensioner Sidney Quince, of Sheep Walk, Bifgleswade, unearthed the Langford workhouse halfpenny token along with an Anglo-Saxon silver ...

... 100 years ago FROM the Bedfordshire Times, October 1, 1887 THE chairman read a letter from Miss Barrett, mistress of the Workhouse School, who gave notice of intention to resign her appointment. On the question of the future arrangement for the children ...

... voucher \o.otonpumsh‘)u sold distinctive clothes.”’ - Everyone knew where the d.::lhu had come from, he ‘“We no longer have workhouse vouchers, but we do have the WRVS and “eanisations like the Lions, ’ ...

... generally for he has en'made during ur Wellsley asure of the > a large and s to choose ans — The ritten to the f telephone Workhouse hat morning o 0 the Urban t permission e work, but opy of the ttee author- as an official 1 Committee tter off-than ...

... Willington to the river at Willington Lock. The walkers then crossed the meadows to Water End, Renhold, going as far as Workhouse End before heading for home. ...

... 100 years From the lodm*l'lmn, August 25, 1888, On Saturday last the inmates of Biggleswade Workhouse had their annual Summer outing in Southill Park, by the kind permission of Mr Whitbread, MP. The party, consisting of about 150 inmates, 30 visitors ...

... block. And Clir Peter Roberts, also of Dunstable, said the 18 flats to be built opposite Chiltern Road had the look of a workhouse. But planning officer Christopher Valentine told them that government circulars advised councils not to get too involved ...

... to represent their case to the Board. Under the poor law orders, the Guardian could relieve no able-bodied man out of the Workhouse except in the case of urgent necessity. ...

... Company and part of the original property owned by the charities which mkw the present one incl ‘‘a shed adjoining the Workhouse, and used as a storage for coals, orven or sold to some of the recipients of the Charities”’. ...