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IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN

... Burning . He also picked up some theatre experience in his teens , namely at the Gate and the London Palladium as one of the workhouse boys in the original cast of Oliver ! was 13 or 14 and I had about six auditions for it . Daniel says . I got it and it ...

Published: Thursday 14 June 2001
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 438 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Net week

... 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: 1586 | Page: 66 | Tags: none

Midwife’s mainstream deal

... time as a midwife in the East End of London in the 19505. Call the Midwife will appear in July 2007, with Shadows of the Workhouse to follow. Weidenfeld has UK and Commonwealth rights. ...

Published: Friday 10 November 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Paul L Martin

... time I was seven . I was in a regional theatre production of Oliver ! in the chorus , and I was the fattest member of the workhouse ever – I think anyone believed I was an orphan . Do you think cabaret is getting more popular ? Absolutely , yes . We have ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 535 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

world is an exciting and fun look at how science fiction is becoming reality. Many of us remember predictions from

... history of recent years. Jennifer Worth’s latest title, Shadows of the Workhouse, is a reminder that within living memory and experience, the Victorian austerity of the workhouse was a real option for many of the most destitute in London’s East End and ...

Published: Friday 14 March 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 341 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Richard Neville Hippie Hippie Shake

... and an account of his travels with Tony Blair in 2007, all around the theme of terrorism. Jennifer Worth Shadows of the Workhouse Phoenix, £6.99, 22nd, 9780753825853 Following on from Call the Midwife, more stories from her 1950 s East End. Errol Morris ...

Published: Friday 26 September 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 100 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

CITY CLEANS UP

... non-fiction chart. Also new in the top 10 is former midwife Jennifer Worth’s second slice of social history, Shadows of the Workhouse. The follow-up to Call the Midwife again deals with the lives of the poor in 1950 s London. Worth’s earlier work has sold ...

Published: Friday 04 July 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

Orphan who inspired Dickens

... book also provides a sense of what working-class life was like in that period.” Icon Books is to launch the biography of a workhouse orphan billed as “the real Oliver Twist”, coinciding with a new Roman Polanski film of the novel by Charles Dickens. John ...

Published: Friday 19 August 2005
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 443 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

(Top) I—Elegant living on a smaller scale: Douces Manor in Kent. From £765,000. (Above left) 2—Gardens at ..

... farmyards of large landed estates; the stables, walled gardens and grounds of large private houses; former institutions such as workhouses, care homes or schools; or interesting industrial buildings such as disused breweries, cornmills or sawmills. Developments ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 2008
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Hodder, 7th, p/b, £12.99, 9780340954676

... new collection. Book Scan HH peter Higginbotham The Workhouse Cookbook The History Press, p/b, £12.99, 9780752447308 A facsimile of the 1901 Manual of Workhouse Cookery, the recipe book every workhouse chef turned to when cooking up a cauldron of gruel ...

Published: Friday 02 May 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 621 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

CROMERHALL

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1410 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

MEDIA VIEW

... daytime schedule when most of those sort of these downmarket viewers are around recent repeats of Minder were dubbed thin workhouse gruel. So last week's decision to commission a new version of Crossroads should satisfy everyone. Perhaps predictably, the ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 799 | Page: 24 | Tags: none