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... affection. It is lost on me. I never went. A Shevington man shows me his ancient documents shedding light on the old Wigan workhouse on Frog Lane. The list of rules and regulations would be amusing had they not been so terrible. ...
... the mortuary with six residents of Wigan Social corpses. Welfare Home on Frog Lane - formerly the It turned out that when Workhouse - were scared he went to measure a body, MU EI RO TS TOR a porter locked him in. Suddenly a glass panel in T el ) the locked ...
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... Geoff Houghton as Bill Sykes and Sue Roberts as Nancy. story of the orphan boy Oliver who, whilst living in the parish workhouse, is constantly mistreated by Mr Bumble, the beadle. When the starving Oliver asks for more gruel the outraged Bumble apprentices ...
... there were no widow’s pensions - and no welfare for miners. There was, however, the Poor Law, and with it the threat of the workhouse in Frog Lane. Inspired by this, Anne started making pies in her little fireside oven and she and her children went out selling ...
... and the “good cheer” which we know it brings us, will make it as welcome in 1852 as it has ever been before. 1866 In the Workhouse again this year, entirely due to the generosity of the Board of Guardians, 429 inmates, 166 men, 142 women and 121 children ...
... 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 ...
... into ruin whije protecting the green belt,” Mr Hing stated. JANUARY 12, 1901: The loneliness of the road leading for the workhouse into Woodhouse Lane is notorious and would, in the opinion of many, form a happy hunting ground for spirits and goblins from ...
... 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 ...
... a 3 A high price 1o pay for family fun I AM researching a book I intend to write about the livineg conditions in the workhouses and orphanages around the country in the early 1900 s. Was life hard? Was it sad? Was there cruelty in those establishments ...
... how he worked to improve the health of Wiganers during the Industrial Revolution, when conditions in the slums, pits and workhouses could not have been worse - but also at a time when some of the greatest advances in science were made. She told of her ...