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... the Albery Theatre, opens January 18 Film: Vera Drake, opens today Radio: Archive Hour-Enter the Workhouse. A look at the realities and folklore of workhouse life, January 8, Bpm, R 4 Television: )erry Springer-The Opera, January 8, lOp m, BBC 2 Its t\ ...
... 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 ...
... boom, turned for new buildings in the 1820 s and 1830 s. He also built many rectories and, from 1834, more prosaically, workhouses. Donthorn was asked to remodel an existing house, which had been leased out to the Buxton family. Sketches by Lady Buxton ...
... Which can be Vzsited. In order to reach the necessary target, Mr Jenkins ropes in not just conventional houses but gaols, workhouses, rums, archaeological sites, cottages-that he is unlikely to know. For my own part, I cannot wait to visit them. sometimes ...
... 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 ...
... Usually these are sober without being dull, although recent programmes have turned disquietingly flighty. This month Enter the WOrkhouse even extracted giggles from a subject that drove both Dickens and Orwell to fury. It is drama, though, which gathers most ...
... ofWight; the Mechanics Institute, a feature of Swindon R ailway Village; the Old Town Hall in Sheffield; Llanfyllin Union Workhouse, Powys; and Moseley Road Baths. Birmingham, the last working Edwardian swimming baths, which has estimated repair costs of ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... such as the National Trust has given into in recent acquisitions. Country houses have been abandoned, and instead we have a workhouse, chartist cottages and back-to-back houses in Birmingham. Are we seeing a dumbing down of heritage from the work of the finest ...