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... Workhouse making docs and drama WORKHOUSE Productions, the company owned by Michael Blakstad, former director of programmes at TVS, is making a series of six documentaries for Channel Four. The programmes cover the subject of, research and development ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1125 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

REGIONAL REVIEWS: Lark Rise

... jolly jigging and the sweet singing there is an occasional flash of fire, such as the removal of a wounded ex-soldier to the workhouse, but the effect is immediately overdone by having him draped as Christ cruci fied upon a hurdle. The hurdles weave their ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Rock moves with times at hospital

... helped shift a quartzite rock that had been kept in the Hospital's grounds as a reminder of its past life a' a workhouse. Inmates of the workhouse had to break up rocks to earn their keep. Only this rock remains. The new four-storey building, at the heart ...

It is easy to forget that a London now vanished lives on in the memories of older Londoners. At the

... Caribbean Women’s Memories and local history groups such as Hammersmith and Fulham Archives. Personal reminiscences of the workhouses and the effects of the General Strike are featured and so are the history of the Moroccan community in North Kensington ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1985
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 306 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

Paw 6 THE GAZETTE Friday November 22 1985 E TANDOORI EALING GALLERY 112 FtTSBANGEE LANE EALING Tel 1-997 3168 19th

... INCLUDE: Eddie Collett Centre vice Lucy (right) Rainbow Club Chaplin Can steals cane A STATUE of Charlie Chaplin the Han well work-house boy who grew up to be comic genius nas been vandalised The statue’s bronze cane a cane was Chaplin’s been taken from the ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1985
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

METAMORPHOSIS; BRAIN; LOKI; SONNY BOY; MASTER PHINEAS DE LA ZOUCHE'S MEDIEVAL STREET THEATRE; FEAST OF FOOLS; ..

... GEKKEN; DOCTOR DOOME'S LIVING WAXWORKS; OUTSIDE IN; GIBBON'S DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE; CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE; JOANNA SOUTHCOTT'S BOX; KING ARTHUR'S ROMAN GAMES; THE PICNIC LUNCHEON PARTY; THE AW FULS; THE MANY LOVES OF MADAME DESIREE; ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 317 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

A weekend of plays and playwrights to celebrate Methuen's 500 plays in print Sunday 9 June: 3pm-6pm ..

... Poliakoff, Wandor, Whelan, White, Wright etc etc. Open to the general public: admission free. Saturday 8 June: 2.30pm The Workhouse Donkey by John Arden First performance for twenty years. Rehearsed reading. Author in attendance. £2.50 Saturday 8 June: ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 387 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

In tune—Billy Bragg and Neil Kinnock

... to many people as intolerant and uncaring a cross between the villains in two old Socialist ballads, Christmas Day In The Workhouse and The Man That Waters The Workers' Beer. Cue for a new song, Billy?. No sex please FUNNIEST book about political jour nalism ...

Published: Sunday 07 April 1985
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CONE GIVES ME THE CREEPS

... commodity, and family loyalty is a sniggering joke. Connie, hypnotically played by the flinty Stephanie Beacham and as sexy as a workhouse slavemaster, can't wait. to get carving up her old business and family colleagues. The screen is splat-' tered with splinters ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1985
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 142 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

DQWN

... 8, Christmas; 9, Heats; 10, Ambergris; 12, Mince Pie; 13, Actor; 16, Regales; 17, Walnuts; 20, Raise; 22, Redeemed; 24, Workhouse; 26, Pecan; 27, A-swimming; 28, Sleep. DOWN.-1, Fireside; 2, Santa Claus; 3, Chimney; 4 Rites; 5, Stag; 6, Calico; 11, Opted; ...

Published: Friday 27 December 1985
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 03 August 1985
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 112 | Tags: none