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Cambridge Evening News Monday January 1 1990 OPINION Resolutions for our success in the new decade NEW YEAR is the

... of the The evidence showed the deceased very hearty Christinas dinner next morning was found dead in bed The master the workhouse said the passed special resolution refusing beer or alcoholic stimulants to the inmates on Christmas Day Coroner said it ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1990
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
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POOR

... Shepperton, Middlesex, writes: KINDLY settle a friendly argument. My friend says workhouses were discontinued in 1930. I say they existed until 1934, possibly 1938. Workhouses, set up A under the 1834 Poor Law Act, went out on March 31, 1930. But the buildings ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1990
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
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TONIGHT TUESDAY JANUARY 2 1990 7 SPECIAL EVENTS FILMS ARNOLFINI CENTRE Narrow LIFE IS A LONG QUIET RIVER (15) 615

... Bristol THEATRE Oliver Twist (Bristol Old Vic until Jan 27): Innovative version of Dickens’ tale of little lad saved from the workhouse and a life of crime Tales of the Undead (Hen and Chicken Bedminster until Jan 7): Show of Strength expand the Dracula legend ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1990
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1591 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

2 TONIGHT WEDNESDAY JANUARY 3 1990 It’s a long way from Hollywood Jack Nicholson will get of dollars for a

... Kantorow in THEATRE Twist (Bristol Old Vic until Jan 27): Innovative version of Dickens' tale of little lad saved from the workhouse and a life of crime Tales of the Undead (Hen and Chicken Bedminster until Jan 7): Show of Strength expand the Dracula legend ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1990
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1194 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

From the last to first – decades a world apart

... poor as always, were with us and very visible at that. Youngsters without footwear were commonly seen in the streets. The workhouse, in the Oxford Road, now Battle Hospital, was a place of last There were areas of Reading Silver Street and Coley come to ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1990
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 871 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... giving a number of the readings (including the difficult task of reading such familiar favourites as Christrnas Day in the Workhouse), as as singing in the choir and working the lighting. Fellow were Ann Fanning, performers riioursbourn, Alison Poole, Jean ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1990
Newspaper: Saffron Walden Weekly News
County: Essex, England
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A winning street for HULL DAILY MAIL THURSDAY JANUARY 4 1990 15 the POOLS punters in a Goole street seem

... £48000 His widow still lives in one of the large Victorian town Home plan branded workhouse’ A PLANNED nursing home for South Cave has been described as a “20th century workhouse” Conservationists have criticised proposals to build a 32-bedroom nursing home ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1990
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
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PLAYING TRICKS

... just one of a hosto(phymfi‘redhdcl(mle’efll{wuwseemacfion-m themDrDarllg,TomK ille, big John O’Neill who was Master of the Workhouse, Herbie Malcolm, who lived at Benfial Place, later to become the Orchard County Hotel, and Lord Lurgan. “T used to caddy for ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1990
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

2 TONIGHT THURSDAY JANUARY 4 1990 How times change Just four years ago Vaclav Havel was a dissident playwright who

... 4LA THEATRE Oliver Twist (Bristol Old Vic until Jan 27): Innovative version of Dickens’ tale of little lad saved from the workhouse and a life of crime Tales of the Undead (Hen and Chicken Bedminster until Jan 7): Show of Strength expand the Dracula legend ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1990
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1906 | Page: 74 | Tags: none

THE-JOURNAL Fond memories of a tittle VIP

... her initial fears were all sent to the out meeting VIPs, se- which were little more #8 cretly thrilled at the sense the workhouse. Her fa caused died not long afterwards. @ end Arthur Stabler with one of her first Off grandeur that had up — though real ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1990
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1289 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Kinder view is taken of town architecture

... even printed - recent changes missing include the opening of the Old Hall’s west wing, the total demolition of the Oakdene workhouse and the conversion of a wool stapler’s house in Church Street into flats. Sections on the villages have also been added to ...

M DOWN MEMORY LANE Disappearing path

... poor people seemed to be very grateful for the trouble taken on their behalf. DINNER AT THE WORKHOUSE — The customary Christmas dinner was served at the Workhouse on Wednesday. The number of inmates was fewer than usual. The dining hall was seasonably decorated ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1990
Newspaper: Whitby Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 755 | Page: 15 | Tags: none