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... idleness of the poor and the need for more prisons and workhouses still echo in the corridors of power to this day. Throw in a complaint against single mothers, and he could probably bag himself a seat in Parliament. Whether audiences plump for his more ...
... one pictured at Tobermory on Mull, are to be replaced by a new fleet during next year. Picture: News Cast Christmas in the workhouse is popular Leslie Kraft Burke SOME people in Scotland prefer to work over Christmas, according to research by BT Cellnet ...
... awful iniquities of the Poor Law Act, Dickens made Oliver an orphan of the workhouse. On pageone,the narratorsays: “Although lam not disposed to maintain that being born in a workhouse is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly ...
... starved and assaulted two young boys for trivial misdemeanours were last night facing jail. In a home run like a Victorian workhouse, the Eai.r fed the youngsters stale read and butter sandwiches and beat and physically abused them. The 47-year-old man and ...
... her childhood MW 5 . ‘theturnofthelast was first blighted by a features stories written century was a picture- spell in a workhouse and and directed by Martin e ey . 20d cheer will be ~ sexual abuse. Listeningto Coppola and Woody \ g -wqgw these tales of ...
... absolutely necessary he be removed to one of the cells in Bedlam (the public lunatic asylum administered by the city’s charity workhouse), a place more proper for one in his situation and where he will have more chance for recovery Miss Brodie and her mother ...
... for patience are likely to meet with the same kind of response Oliver Twist received when he asked for more gruel in the workhouse. But Levein is optimistic that the Hearts supporter base will show understanding of his current problems. These are not ...
... the dreaded names even now. “They were the places you would be sent if you were pregnant or you were destitute, like a workhouse but one step up.” In the event, Evelyn was sent to High Park, her brothers to schools 200 miles away in Kilkenny. She recalls ...
... drama of the mad mother who, on beingdeserted by herhusband, refused to claim social security because it smacked of the workhouse,. They ended up in an empty flat with one bed and one chair, everything else having been taken by the bailiffs. The mother ...
... Born to unmarried parents in 1841 in north Wales and named John Rowlands after his presumed father, Stanley was sent to the workhouse aged six * The auction will be in London on 24 September. ...
... over-spending than last year. Time to get back to basics wth that sganwnmbmev:R Sims in 1879: “It was Christmas Day in the workhouse, and the cold bare walkmhfi;' aod pusodies of the we SRR of the well-meaning Sims: “It was Christmas Day in the AR G Pt out ...
... the throne because her cousins are illegitimate, 18285 - First railway line opens. 1827 - Death of Beethoven. R ' 1834 - Workhouses established. -~ -~ - - 1837 - William IV dies. Victoria, aged 18, is Queen. ‘B4O 1. .- Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert ...