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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Edinburgh streets, and one step away from the workhouse. Howell heard Nicol's story, and - in a rare act of publishing altruism - decided to transcribe it as a last-ditch method of saving Nicol from the workhouse. The world is not short of briny seadog tales ...
... friendship to the limit. The film works best when focused on older pilot Franta's (Vetchy) . imprisonment in a 3 Communist workhouse. Unfortunately, the pathos at the heart of the geriatricpaced script (by Sverdk’s - father Zdenek) is as overinflated as ...