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During the past few months, COUNTRY LIFE has been casting an occasionally critical eye over the way the ..

... interest', by acquiring buildings whose value derives from their associations or their social significance. These include a workhouse, a Chartist's cottage, the semi-detached home of an Edwardian seed-merchant and the Liverpool council house where the first ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 804 | Page: 82 | Tags: none

Psalter shame

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 11 November 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 727 | Page: 60 | Tags: none

The long haul

... Twist. We shall underline the historical aspect and the pro duction because today's kids don't, for instance, know what a workhouse is, says Wenbome. We are also con sidering doing a pantomime on a static basis next year. Getting it right-Chaplins Pantos' ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 901 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Children’s previews

... Annie flee from the brutish farmer to whom they have been apprenticed, after their mother reluctantly abandoned them in the workhouse. Their journey over the moorland road moves from danger to near disaster. Hard choices have to be made, and the momentum ...

Published: Friday 15 October 2004
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 595 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

novel, Songs of Blue and Gold, will come from Arrow in 2008. A third trend, and one that may seem

... Hidden Cause—My Story. Merton published Call the Midwife in 2002, and a second memoir, Shadows of the Workhouse, in 2005. A copy of Shadows of the Workhouse arrived in the hands of Matthew Parris, who wrote about it in the Spectator. “Worth’s book made me ...

Published: Friday 23 March 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 959 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

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... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 18 October 2007
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 929 | Page: 92 | Tags: none

THE CLIMBING BOY

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1907 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

Midwifery Worth £sook

... and its followup, from Merton Books, which originally published Call the Midwife in 2002. The followup, Shadows of the Workhouse, will be re-released later this month. Parris received a copy of Shadows . . . some time ago. “Worth’s book made me cry in ...

Published: Friday 30 May 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: 111 | Tags: none

the courts at the Caste! Capuano, which still boasts an impressive upper hall filled with illusionistic ..

... Teatro San Carlo; Europe's first botanic garden; and the huge, unfinished Albergo dei Poveri, intended to be the largest workhouse in the world. The palace interiors that remain are often dazzling in their richness. Intriguingly, the best decorative schemes ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 988 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

On the Moors

... 200 I 53 RUN qf 26 letters written by the novelist George Eliot, mostry to Jane Senior, a philanthropist and inspector qf workhouses and pauper houses in the 19th century, has been baiTed from export by Arts Minister Alan Howarth. Organisations who want ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2019 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

Misconceptions Royal Theatre , Northampton August 18 Author : David Lewis Director : Tim Carroll Producers : ..

... p of musical director Jon Beales , has the audience stamping and cheering long before the curtain . From the moment the Workhouse Boys belt out the endearing qualities of Food , Glorious Food , down to final promise to “ turn over a new , this team goes ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 2004
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1166 | Page: 9 | Tags: none