... girl who dies giving birth. He is christened by Bumble, the parish beadle and sent to a baby grm until he can enter the workhouse at age nine. In later episodes, the title role is taken by Bath schoolboy Ben Rodska in his first role, and the part of the ...

... a charming: . children’s . chorus and : two - splendid - performances by - Jill - Graham_ as tyrannical Mrs ‘Corney, the workhouse --miatron,: - and . a flirtatious Mrs Bedwin. . . - Granville: Bell - appears to have directed his actors -to be insipid ...

... card when he was sixty to relieve his loneliness. A cult figure for the colony of St Ives painters, he died in a Penzance workhouse. Perspective has no meaning in his private world where concept ousts perception, schooners climb hills of sea and houses ...

... MAY 29 Who cares about diets? IT might look like scene from Oliver But the lavish surroundings are far cry from Dickens workhouse And It was not gruel but really glorious food they were serving our four celebrity slimmers will testify Alex Sutherland ...

... storey cottage comprising livingroom, two bedrooms, boxroom, walk-in cupboard, kitchen and bathroom. Large garden. Garage / workhouse and various outhouses. The property requires modernisation and planning permission has been approved. It is eligible for ...

... is rather. different. The show begins with an electrifying tableau that is miles away from the average musical; a beaten workhouse boy snivels in a corner as all the other children file silently ;)n, to sif in attitudes of Ilgg: ess despair; a threa - ...

... us further down e league? he also aware that some of oorest people in our society :xperience the rigours of the Victorian workhouse? As maternity and death grants will be means tested and paid for out of a so-called discretionary fund, does the Secretary ...

... to payment by results. “This is a reference to nineteenth-century history and is about as relevant to the 1980 s as the workhouse, climbing boys and muffins for tea.” Developing full potential, rewarding outstanding performance and correcting weak performance ...

... storey cottage comprising livingroom, two bedrooms, boxroom, walk-in cupboard, kitchen and bathroom. Large garden. Garage / workhouse and various outhouses. The property requires modernisation and planning permission has been approved. R.V. £519. To view ...

... clout at the disgusting hedonism of a society corrupted by money and selfserving materialism — a real “Christmas Day in the workhouse™ assault on a system that seems to have settled for the obscenity of four million permanently unemployed. For a variety of ...

... 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 ...

... Rugby 5.10 Attic Archives 5.30 The Queen in the Caribbean Belize and the Bahamas 6.00 Oliver Twist Oliver has shocked the workhouse guardians by asking for more gruel and they decide to get rid of him by making him an apprentice 6.30 News 6.40 Songs Of ...