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01753 888333 RESIDENTS at public enquiry aid to build 300 the Seer Green area would make Chalfont St Giles Seer

... of 19th century workhouses in Amersham The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 made the word 'workhouse one of the most feared and despised of Victorian em The Act required groups of parishes to form unions and provide central workhouse for the poor Those ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1996
Newspaper: Beaconsfield Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
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Poor short-changed on Victorian values

... 19th century workhouses in Amersham. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 had made the word 'workhouse' one of the most feared and despised of the Victorian era. The Act required groups of parishes to form unions and provide a central workhouse for the poor ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1996
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1134 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Pioneer who put in picture

... An inspector Poor Law Amendment Act of 1838 made these comments on the small that there should be a large central parish workhouse then at Penn. one covering several small parishes. I find it impossible to describe The idea was so unpopular that the misery ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1996
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 223 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... lane. • • • AMERSHAM Workhouse was built in 1838 after the Poor Law Amendment Act made provision for the care of those who could not look after themselves. It later became Amersham General Hospital ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1996
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 35 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... photographers family albums and local collections — h- - iirrim III I Wednesday January 17 1996 Zoe Zarkos VS AMERSHAM Workhouse built In 1838 altar the Poor Law Amend ment Act made provision for the care of those who could not look after themselves- ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1996
Newspaper: Beaconsfield Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
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C rime was t h e design inspiration STOLEN property records the 17705, have been pretested to lists of stolen

... property records the 17705, have been pretested to lists of stolen property showed he was able to hang on to those. and workhouse inventories Chiltern Open Air Museum, the volunteers what kinds of Straw plaiting is obviously not Chalfont St Giles. clothes ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1995
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

poorhouse to caring centre

... Street site was originally intended to be one of three workhouses, situated in Amersham, Chesham and Chenies, created as part of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. But the management of three workhouses soon became too much and on March 30 1835 an elected ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1992
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 475 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

U. em CHALFONT ST PETER VILLAGE - £215,000 A skilfully restored and superbly modernised period home, originally ..

... em CHALFONT ST PETER VILLAGE - £215,000 A skilfully restored and superbly modernised period home, originally a pair of workhouse cottages and with masses of exposed beams and period features. Dining room. lounge. study. breakfast room. splendid kitchen ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1998
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 52 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

rom • OUR thanks to Dr Challoner's Grammar School pupil George Thomlinson who wrote this article. George, 16, ..

... unfortunate patients usually spent the final days of their lives being tended by paupers in the freezing cold wards of the workhouse. A shocked inspection team in 1865 brought an end to these appalling conditions. In 1868 the sick were separated from the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1992
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 846 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Q Get to your lessons: Wendover Middle School pupils during their Victorian day

... Adams And right from the start they would have picked up in an. they were treated as paupers the workhouse. The children travelled from a local workhouse, on ~ “Mrs Bunbridge (the back in time again on trial for jobs in the big house. housekeeper) threatened ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1993
Newspaper: Bucks Herald
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 8 | Tags: none