... Workhouse THE ACCEPTANCE OF TENDERS FOR SUPPLIES. Mr. Brian said he considered that in the giving away of contracts the local tenders should get a preference as they were paying rates. The consideration of the tenders for the supplies was then taken up ...

... THE WORKHOUSE Few would imagine what goes on behind the walls of this ominous, bleak-looking building in Co Sligo. The Dromore West Union Workhouse was completed in 1852 and paid for by local ratepayers (landlords) to reduce the cost of sending tenants ...

... Workhouse A mention should be given to the youngsters who play=d members of Fagin's gang and the workshouse children who were stars in their own right As well as excellent singing from the principal characters and the chorus, the orchestra played a large ...

... Workhouse Anthony said: “We can't work out why, but it appears his mother must have come over to Birmingham and ended up in what was classed as a WOrkhouse “She entered Aston Union on November 19th, 1919, and left there on February 19th, 1920 to go to ...

... Workhouse memory I AM researching a book I intend to write about the living conditions in the workhouse and orphanages around the country in the early 1900 s. Was life hard? Was it sad? Was there cruelty in those establishments? If you would like to share ...

... gone to the workhouse if you had no other place to go to.' Robinson: 'I was there one day and one night, and was sent out the following morning. They would want a man to go down on his knees and pray, in order to be admitted into the workhouse.' His Lordship ...

... Ballymena workhouse BROUGHSHANE Historical Society are hosting an open meeting during which local historian Marie Vaughan will give a talk on Ballymena Workhouse The event takes please on Wednesday, February 26 at 7.30 pm in Houston's Mill Broughshane ...

... DEATH IN WORKHOUSE AN old man named Thou Family, a native of inchimore, who was an inmate of Trim workhouse Hospital, died very suddenly there on Saturday morning last. He was leaving the workhouse that morning, it appears, notwithstanding the inclemency ...

... THE WORKHOUSE IN DERRY Patrick Durnin’s marvellous Guildhall Press publication, “The Workhouse and The Famine in Derry”, reprints a fascinating letter from an exsoldier in the Fountain area, which was read aloud to the Workhouse Guardian's meeting in ...

... workhouse andmatch girls, culminating in a trip across Ireland. (T) (2497) 1000 BIC News at Ten O'Clodc M (370045) 1P25 BBC Newsline; Weather (7)(791294) 1M35 the Goth The Masten Gary Linker hosts further coverage of the opening day of the first Major ...

... buildings. The workhouse continued as such, until 1924, when the Board of Guardians was replaced by the County The buildings were extended and served as a district hospital until it was demolished in the late 1960 s and replaced with Boyne View House ...

... THE OLD 'WORKHOUSE CLIFDEN HOUSE ...