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... than million and half families on benefit can’t afford to their children Vlctorlan-style workhouse diet made shudder a poor child the equivalent of an workhouse diet of meat potatoes and bread would today cost £BM Income support allows just £41A But looking ...
... buffet lunch cost 12 and can be booked on 021 235 3999 Workhouse days BIRMINGHAM’S People’s History Society will be discussing the history of the Birmingham Workhouse its meeting this month The Workhouse was one of the major institutions in Brum All thse ...
... poor and at school a hundred years ago The storyline revolved around the plight of the Dodd family who had to resort to the workhouse When one of the sons young William was apprenticed to a faraway cotton factory his mother wept when he left The pilot exercise ...
... Warwick WI: At Warwick Daytime WI Arthur Measures gave a talk on the old Warwick Workhouse. The next meeting is on March 10 at 12.45 pm at Northgate Methodist church hall when a talk on the restoration of the Lord Leycester Garden is to be given by Susan ...
... Hunstanton Avenue Harborne Birmingham 021-434-3283 GOODBYE TO ALL THAT Frank and his brothers wait to be taken from the grim workhouse to a new life in Birmingham LESSONS IN A HARD LIFE Frank’s vivid memory of the village school where he admits he often wore ...
... EVENING MAIL SATURDAY JULY 29 1996 K It looks like prison KINGS OF THE Y - and for many Birmingham Workhouse pictured hope of over escaping here in FRONTEERS over by Carl Chinn and Malcolm Stent’s double act that she’s launched a fan club for them The ...
... else still contained in the workhouse should be passed over to the people of Birmingham They may technically belong to the health authority but I would urge them to forfeit this technicality If we can't keep the workhouse itself the people of Birmingham ...
... Known. Members are looking forward to their next meeting on February 10 when Arthur Measures will speak about the Warwick Workhouse. New members are always welcome at the meetings, which are held at Northgate Methodist church hall on the second Monday in ...
... Gallantry in the Crimea buried in the Town Cemetery, Warwick. Private Garnham was master of Lakin House, then the Workhouse, in Warwick and there is a brass tablet in the Chapel there in his memory. Sergeant Seth Bond was born in 1822 and fought in the ...
... 12000 different types of tokens were issued Local authorities also used tokens and many were issued by the workhouse authorities The Birmingham Workhouse was erected in 1733 and anyone refus ing to enter lost all claim to poor relief The workshops were similar ...
... entering its final act First the old castle gateway of the rison was demolished despite being a isted building Then the workhouse was flattened leaving behind only the isolated “Archway of Tears” Now the last of this sad trio of Victorian institutions ...
... fear that goes with that I ARCHIVE Chris Upton on a blip on the line of workhouse discipline No story tugged at the Victorian heart-strings more powerfully than a tale of the workhouse In the pages of Dickens or on the music hall stage they told sad stories ...