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WESTERN EVENING HERAU) Saturday June 20 1987 13 Edited by Frank Sloan H CITY FINAL' 'Boogie' music by boy of

... the for serial when 14 working for his ’‘O’’ IN AUGUST and September of 1849 Plymouth was ravaged by cholera The city's workhouse founded in 1630 and otherwise known the “Hospital of the Poor's Portion'' in Catherine Street was already heavily overburdened ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1987
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1726 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Evening Herald Saturday December 1987 PAGE THAT mythical ‘aged pauper’ of the music hall monologue who made a ..

... surmises that Mayor might have recently been burgled or that if not pretty soon would For workhouses though there was that year the bounty : 6 1855 The Stonehouae in Workhouse on Christmas Day regaled with roast beef and plum pudding and tea and sugar was given ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1987
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1528 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

H CITY CHARLES DICKENS'S of iron suffered by unprotected children took long time have any practical effect More ..

... Mary Ann Parsons was mother an inmate of Bideford Workhouse They there Mary's father had been transported Australia probably for an offence such stealing To avoid unnecessary charges on policy to workhouse children out to work “apprenticeshipt possible ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1987
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 867 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Evening Herald Thursday December 29 1988 E H CITY FINAL PAGE 13 Social services ba se is branded grim and

... up (Quality flats in convenient location) Bid to close DHS 'workhouse' FRESH attempts will be made to close down the “North Prospect Workhouse” in Plymouth The former W'olsely Home workhouse now used as a i social services base has been branded grim and ...

Published: Thursday 29 December 1988
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 995 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

8 WESTERN EVENING HERALD Wednesday December 3 HERALD Comment Dilemma of AIDS THERE is renewed call for a ..

... State” the workhouse was almost that Proud old people would sometimes literally die of shame when they had to into the hated “Union” Dickens’s “Oliver Twist did lot to expose the abases of the system and end of the 19th century many workhouses were regarded ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1986
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
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E H CITY WESTERN EVENING HERALD Saturday 4 13 Edited by Frank Sloan Highlights of weekend viewing THE SPITTING ..

... bought divided into allotments for building in 1155 year after the erection on the Saltash Road of Devonport Workhouse When first built the workhouse now converted and better known today Wolseley Homo have stood almost on its own Within few however the young ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1987
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1417 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

CITY FINAL iudiic as car crime soars POLICE today pleaded for help to combat soaring vehicle crime The Plymouth ..

... trappers predicted that Bid to build flats near old workhouse THE Victorian Society and English Heritage interest raised no objection plans to build nine flats alongside Tavistock's former workhouse at Russell Court flats will he in and a building which ...

Published: Monday 27 July 1987
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 910 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

H CITY WESTERN HERALD Tuesday June 7 7 herald AC 1:31:11 ’ KMILuV DOWNING TR THEODORE JONES WILLIAM ROWLANDS Mar

... the exam Twelve people were eventually awarded the certificate of proficiency in visual grading of timber Workhouse sold I THE old Bodmin work-house Berry Towers built in 1842 for £5000 has been to a private developer for conversion into 36 one and two-bed ...

Published: Tuesday 02 June 1987
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

i Evening Herald Wednesday Red Cross seeks charity week helpers DEVON Red Cross has appealed tor help with its ..

... international aid provided by the Red Cross Offices complex could replace old 'workhouse’ A LARGE office complex could be built on the site of the Wolseley Read workhouse” and the adjoin- He said: Plymouth desperately short land and this would little ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1989
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1126 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Evening Herald Wednesday January 4 1989 PAGE HERALD 01 sfTlBIA 0M The homeless people without a number I WRITE in

... yon all New Year Life of luxury at the workhouse REGARDING your report that West Devon area social services are disappointed they are unable at present anyway to spend £2 million to move out of the former “workhouse” in Wolseley Road Are these by any chance ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1989
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1223 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WESTERN EVENING HERALD Monday September 8 Herald comment Limping in Whitehall WHAT does the world think today ..

... the work-house impressed the master by his amiable disposition and industry and was encouraged in his passion for reading and writing When he had to leave he apprenticed to shoemaker who treated him so cruelly he begged to come back to workhouse Evening ...

Published: Monday 08 September 1986
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 3137 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PAGE 14 Evening Herald Tuesdi CITY Home for elderly to be shut PLANS have been drawn up to end “deplorable

... CLOSURE of the “Plymouth Workhouse” has been given official approval Councillors backed the scheme to shut down Devon’s social services base at Wolseley House in North Prospect They agreed that the grim forbidding former workhouse has a depressing effect ...

Published: Tuesday 17 January 1989
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1308 | Page: 14 | Tags: none