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THE CLIMBING BOY

... up the fight And climbed to everlasting light, It was for Abner no great bother To pop along and fetch another. He knew a workhouse out of town Where orphans cost just half-a-crown. One day he bought a boy called Jack And punched his head and brought him ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1907 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

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... the cen- Tyntesfield was worth saving, its expertise in mounting a cam- tre of its attention, after a decade of acquiring workhouses and paign, and the decision by the National Heritage Memorial Fund ~ pop stars’ birthplaces? In fact, they have never ceased ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: 111 | Tags: none

the courts at the Caste! Capuano, which still boasts an impressive upper hall filled with illusionistic ..

... Teatro San Carlo; Europe's first botanic garden; and the huge, unfinished Albergo dei Poveri, intended to be the largest workhouse in the world. The palace interiors that remain are often dazzling in their richness. Intriguingly, the best decorative schemes ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 988 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

On the Moors

... 200 I 53 RUN qf 26 letters written by the novelist George Eliot, mostry to Jane Senior, a philanthropist and inspector qf workhouses and pauper houses in the 19th century, has been baiTed from export by Arts Minister Alan Howarth. Organisations who want ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2019 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

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... National Trust has moved on from acquiring country houses, in of Tyntesfield. One of England’s most secret country favour of workhouses or the birthplaces of the Beatles, the truth is that houses, it stands in beautiful pastoral countryside over- no major ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1149 | Page: 59 | Tags: none

The countryside of old was not all golden straw and picturesque happiness. SUSAN HILL counts the blessings of ..

... children scaring birds and picking up stones in fi elds in all weathers, for half-pence. Old people being taken by force to the workhouse. Cottagers doffing their caps to the squire and the parson. Fields aflame, then blackened and trees scorched, after stubble ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1113 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

NEXT WEEK

... that is under way on the outskirts of Midhurst in W est Sussex . Grade 11-listed Budgenor Lodge was built in 1794 as a workhouse for children and the ageing. Constructed largely from materials found within two miles of the site, it had dormitories, workrooms ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 926 | Page: 100 | Tags: none

Kirkby Fleetham, Northallerton DL7 OSH

... com www.laighwood.co.uk Brecon Beacons Superb walking and all mod-cons CRlCKHOWElll•aginativesell-catenng apartmentinOid Workhouse.Greatviews.Canalside.Sieeps2 . Petswelcome.Weeklyorshortbreaks. PENCEILINR BRECON.Comlortablesell-catenngconage with pri ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 2007
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2097 | Page: 157 | Tags: none

A LIBRARY FIT FOR

... early fi re-proof building as 'one of the most forward-looking buildings of its age', although he sensed something of the workhouse or prison in its 'overpowering massiveness', and thought it 'very intimidating, as it was presumably intended to be'. Pe ...

Published: Thursday 02 November 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 985 | Page: 130 | Tags: none

PENZANCE – CORNWALL

... reception hall, cloakroom, drawing room, sitting room, dining room, breakfast kitchen-oak, granite and Aga, utility room, workhouse/studio. First Floor: five bedrooms, two bathrooms, shower room. Dry cellars: two large rooms and wine store. Outside: double ...

Published: Thursday 31 May 2007
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1734 | Page: 101 | Tags: none

BUTLER/VALET

... was prepared to be utterly freaked out, particularly as the moon hung low over the only building in the vicinity, a former workhouse, in ruins now. But actually, I found time passed pretty smoothly. Of course I did penance, especially to the lorry driver ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1898 | Page: 136 | Tags: none

Hertfordshire – Bovingdon Green

... comments (Letters, ovember I 1 ) that the ational Trust has given into political pressure with the recent acquisitions of a workhouse. C hartist cottages and back-to-back housing in Birmingham. I have visited the site and taken a tour and was very impressed ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9086 | Page: 69 | Tags: none