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Bring back ‘The Workhouse’

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

'workhouse unting Irish that failed- to

... 'workhouse unting Irish that failed- to across the - -In the end, we ' -as the = lights went up Mmtc 5 another more stimulating start % to the day. Haydn Murphy ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1988
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 32 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

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... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Fife motorists fined, banned

... Kirkcaldy Police Station Workmen digging up a carpark in Southwark Brnidge Road, London, uncovered a grave with 100 bodics A workhouse stood on the site 250 years ago. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 May 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

image hides the squalor

... than that. “The East End was a disposable society. Child mortality was high. If you didn’t have any money, yon went to the workhouse or the wall. It was everyone for themselves.” East Enders complained at the time that the police were not paying enough attention ...

Published: Friday 26 August 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

N TN L S (i And the lower girls of the 2nd and Bih Brownie . ower girls o nd

... Helen Currie. Glaswegian-style script Bookseller, Gillian McKenna; Boys, Julia for (h:gcil..nc’;fl of |s|| g;;',,t':’;: Workhouse boys (the 4th Brownie pack) opened McGill, Gemma Rattray, Caroline Reed and » full. And it was. the musical in marvellous ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1988
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 429 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

By FRANK URQUHART

... Please Sir, I want some more —that's the hungry cry from Oliver, played by Paul Gibson, as some more hungry orphans from the workhouse look on. Dyce Academy is presenting Oliver from Wednesday, December 14 Friday, December 16. ...

Published: Monday 12 December 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... comprising gpmz;xcn, SOUTH (18/25 Ratcliffe e erracej - S o 0 lease 162 DALRY ROAD To let may sell Prominent ti garage / workhouse 18,600 sq prom sho it totalling 796 sq ft Rand gt Ty t i ety : e refurbished tenement property. T y ¢ te industrial /: ...

Published: Tuesday 09 August 1988
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 209 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

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... what if it isn't the seaside we're having a ball without the beach 'Can I have some more please? it's not Oliver in the workhouse but this appealing lad could win any heart with his eyes r Davis AND TENNENT CALEDONIAN BREWERIES LTD INVITE YOU TO ENTER ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1988
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 290 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

BBC 2

... spy school. And One Law for the Poor tells how the 19th-century Anatomy Act made it legal for “unclaimed” bodies in the workhouse or hospital to be delivered for dissection. 9.00—-M*A*S*H. 9.2s—*The Singing Detective (see Highlights). 10.35—Newsnight ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 2 | Tags: none