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... Tales from the workhouse BY RICHARD TAYLOR CHAIRMAN RIPON MUSEUM TRUST WORKHOUSE LIFE WHAT a wonderful weekend we have had at the Workhouse! For the first time since it closed as an institution, the vagrants' wards have been alive with the sounds and ...

... morale is very low. “The workhouses went away years ago and 1 doubt if people can even remember what a workhouse was. I'm in my 60s and I don’t remember them. “The standard of care offered here is a lot higher thar in a workhouse.” Mike Padgham, who owns ...

... From workhouse to public school A MUCH-LOVED musical opens in Scarborough next week when Scarborough and District Light Opera Society presents Oliver! The musical adaption of Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist tells of an orphan who escapes the workhouse ...

... In 1834 the Poor Law Amendment Act was passed, leading in 1858 to the closure of the old Workhouse and the building of the spacious new Knaresborough Workhouse in Stockwell Road, which later became Knaresborough Hospital. There is plenty of evidence ...

... Workhouse museum cash hope CELLS formerly used to house tramps have moved a step nearer becoming a Victorian Workhouse museum. Ripon Museum Trust plans to turn part of the gatehouse block at Sharow View, Allhallowgate, into a centre focusing on the Poor ...

... Victorian ode on jail, death and workhouse IN Victorian times Scarborough had Its own resident poet. He was called Matthew Harman, and he worked as a fisherman before he discovered a talent for pootrr-wrltlng — or maybe discovered that being a poet was ...

... Allhallowgate Methodist Church Workhouse Museum 7.30-9.30 pm YMCA 11-noon Market Square 11am-2pm Wakeman's House 4pm YMCA 5.30 pm Ripon Catherdral 7.30 pm Holy Trinity Church 7.30 pm Ripon Cathedral 5.30 pm Ripon Cathedral 10.30 am from Ripon Cathedral ...

... —An era of grace. . .and workhouses—— The high and low life B ON sale now: Prudence Bebb's fascinating new book. ...

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... for swift closure of ‘workhouse hospital’ CALLS have been made for Scarborough’s St Mary’s Hospital to be closed as soon as possible because its mental-health services have almost reached crisis level. The former Victorian workhouse in Dean Road is scheduled ...