... Lane, is president of the Fleetwood league. She has witnessed the growth of Rossall Hospital from a poorly funded converted workhouse for psychiatric and geriatric patients to a state-of-the art rehabilitation hospital, opened a few weeks ago. ...

... found evidence that children as young as nine worked on these boats. They may have been orphans who swopped life in the workhouse at Kirkham for a job on a smack. Sam took to the seafaring life and became a skipper. Frank said: “The fish trade at Fleetwood ...

... Tatton Park, Eric Robson hears about the barrage balloon with a habit of escaping its moorings and investigates how the child workhouses of ‘Bethnal Green fuelled the Derbyshire cotton boom. Last in series. 318349 6.15 ITV NEWS; (T) Weather. (T) 517900 6.30 ...

... next ten years, the league worked to rid the hospital of the regimented and prison-like stigma which surrounded the old workhouses. In 1968 she branched out and formed the Rossall league, which now also incorporates Fleetwood’s main hospital. “When I ...