... Workhouse The next phase of the main development of the Stratford Community Hospital is due to start in 1994, the AHA was told. It comprises the demolition of the former Victorian workhouse, Arden House, and building a new administrative support block ...

... Return to the workhouse Sir: At a time when we have a growing number of older people in our communities it is unacceptable that many local authorities do not have the money available to implement care in the community. Over the past 18 years we have seen ...

... 34 Metronews Thursday 22nd August 19 Life in the Workhouse WHAT was it like living in a workhouse? Or being a policeman in 19th century Birmingham? Or being a member of the city's Irish community? These are just some of the subjects being tackled by new ...

... Conditions look grim for the ‘workhouse’ boys and girls of Hinckley St John Ambulance Brigade on their Oliver Twist float Feather dusters at the ready ‘Mrs Mopps’ Sophie Bennett 1 1 and ten-year-old Claire Grant prepare for a wet and windy walk around ...

... historian Carl Chinn in the old dungeon of the workhouse - he wants to see the building restored as a museum with the new development built around Hated institutions built by a callous ruling class WORKHOUSES were the dreaded last resort of England’s poor ...

... 100 Journey Christmas Christmas no fairytale at Coventry Workhouse WHAT Coventry children were hoping Santa would pop into their sacks varied dramatically In 1906 hundreds of hopeful children's noses were being pressed up against Caldicott's shop window ...

... the headlines last season when they introduced the innovative “Workhouse” specially designed facility based on the most up-to-date training methods from New Zealand The indoor “workhouse” meant training could continue even when the weather made pitches ...

... '5 MEMORIES RHYTHM NERVES Workhouse days that still haunt the lives of city people NEWS INSIDE: WEATHER 2 ISSUE No 54 25 pence Hard-up police miss out on radar cameras By GURBIR DHILLON HUNDREDS of law-breaking motorists in Birmingham are set to escape ...

... found plenty to do So what did work in the workhouse actually mean? It was a mixture of home economics community service and welfare to work The work on offer was basically of three kinds Near to the workhouse in Steelhouse Lane was a flour mill and plenty ...

... EVENING TELEGRAPH NBCRL WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1999 13 SON OF WORKHOUSE MASTER WELCOMED THE WORLD TO HIS RIVERSIDE PARADISE FRIENDLY FACE: Arthur Measures pictured in his beloved garden in the shadow of Warwick Castle in August 1994 ONE of the country’s ...

... 20 HEARTLAND EVENING NEWS Friday March 27 1998 FEW people can say they rose “from work-house to jailhouse” and stayed on the right side of the law But Hinckley-based police Superintendent Pat McHugh did just that and is now looking forward to a well-earned ...

... THEATR MAC Cannon Hill Park Edgbaston 0121 440 32838: Looking for the Tallyman A workhouse-inspired Hansel and Gretel style fable (today 8pm) Ecstasy Part of a short Mike Leigh season (Mon-Thu 730pm) The Door Broad Street Birmingham 0121 236 4455: Silence ...