... 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 ...

... that year. At the start of the last war the FAP was in an outbuilding on the west side of the old workhouse in Arden Street. The main entrance to the workhouse was on the south side and had an imposing porch. Mr Robert Lunn was the town clerk of Stratford ...

... peze performance The workhouse folk would have also had the chance to see the extraordinary bicy cle skater trick cyclist and swordsman T H Crowther But after the brief inter lude it was back to the drud gery of life m the workhouse prize for style Powell ...

... century when the stonehouse became the workhouse for the poor of the parish, overseen by the church wardens among whom was Leonard Court. The inmates were well fed, meat being a regular item on the menu. Gay was the workhouse master. In 1842 the nineteen cottages ...

... Tony Mason a University of Warwick historian said: People in the workhouse ate well on only one day of the year The rest of the time the food was terrible In the 1890s the workhouse was still a place of last resort If you were there you were confessing ...

... sweep the chimney’s pf the Newdegate Arms Hotel which is 64ft high the Manor Hospital and the Nuneaton workhouse in College Street Sweeping the workhouse deeply affected him he said: “People were existing there in terrible conditions they were either waiting ...

... this month. The exhibition. entitled From Starch to Comfort. examines the history from Shipston House, a 19th century workhouse. to the newlook Low Furlong old people's home. It begins on Monday 28th October. ...

... and a bit tougher At last the slope starts to even out Now a straighter shallower stretch beckons Dreaded workhouse First the dreaded workhouse goes by followed by the imposing Catholic Church of St Patrick and next the laughter-filled Summerfield Park ...

... Perowne, declared the hospital open. Before the Ellen Badger was established, there was an infirmary in Shipston at the workhouse, the Poor Law Institution, opened in 1837. Later, in 1901, an infectious diseases isolation hbspital was opened in the town ...

... local autonomy and 1733 saw the opening of Birmingham’s first workhouse in Steel-house Lane 1889 witnessed the opening Dudley Road Hospital as the infirmary of the then new Birmingham Workhouse largely to the design and high standards Florence Nightingale ...

... our city who had little put by for a lavish celebration The sick and needy pensioners homeless with a bed at the hostel or workhouse and of course the little ones in care Thankfully the ordinary people of Coventry from shops and offices churches and clubs ...

... dance which was organised by the Friends of the School on Saturday 17th February was attended by more than SO people. The Workhouse Blues Band provided the music to an enthusiastic audience, and real ale and wine were available along with an excellent supper ...