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... History alive in ‘workhouse’ HISTORY came alive in Ripon at the weekend when part of the old Sharow View workhouse, was opened to the public for the first time. Room at the Allhallowgate premises was one of a number of properties in Ripon being specially ...
... The Workhouse Museum of Poor Law THIS is Britain’s first workhouse museum in its authentic location. It is housed in the men’s casual wards of the former Ripon Union workhouse and portrays the treatment of vagrants 100 years ago. Visitors can imagine ...
... The final calotype shows the Charity Workhouse, now demolished, and, to its right, Heriot's Hospital in the distance, next to the corner of the Castle's Palace block, which then still had harling on its rubble walls, but no roof above the square turret ...
... cheer to the Workhouse tomorrow as part of a festive fund-raising event. Oliver Twist look-alikes and would-be urchins will also be putting in an appearance in a competition organised as part of the day’s fun. The former Victorian workhouse on Allhallowgate ...
... Christmas in OLIVER Twist look-alikes and would-be urchins will be helping mark Christmas in the Workhouse at Ripon next weekend. The former Victorian workhouse - now part of Ripon’s Law and Order Museum Trail - is the venue for a Christmas Fair on Saturday ...
... nciluded a workhouse ¢ ~--Ng today in a comfortable private home of great character with modern fixtures and fittings throughout and adjoining BRANCH AGENTS FOR outbuildings with potential for Nationwide Building Socien leisure facilities/granny annexe ...
... fiction. Its funding is a casualty of sweeping Arts Council cuts. Register on www. dedalusbooks.com ●Workhouse reprieve: The Llanfyllin Union Workhouse, Powys, which is on the Victorian Society’s list of 10 most endangered buildings (Town and Country, ...
... MONDAY ® Ripon: Talk on the History of the Workhouses in Ripon and Yorkshire with Anthony Chadwick, assistant workhouse curator . 2.30 pm, Workhouse Museum. Free book in advance. Telephone (01423) 556188 ...
... Museum talk RIPON Museum Trust has arranged an afternoon talk at its Workhouse Museum on Monday at 2.30 pm. - Assistant curator Anthony Chadwick will be speaking on ‘The History of Workhouses in Ripon and Yorkshire.’ ...
... those enjoying Christmas in the Workhouse last Saturday. The Greystone pupil received a cash prize for his convincing impersonation of the Charles tion organised as part of a fundraising Christmas fair at the Workhouse Museum. Jill Wilkinson, of Ripon ...
... Usually these are sober without being dull, although recent programmes have turned disquietingly flighty. This month Enter the WOrkhouse even extracted giggles from a subject that drove both Dickens and Orwell to fury. It is drama, though, which gathers most ...
... the Albery Theatre, opens January 18 Film: Vera Drake, opens today Radio: Archive Hour-Enter the Workhouse. A look at the realities and folklore of workhouse life, January 8, Bpm, R 4 Television: )erry Springer-The Opera, January 8, lOp m, BBC 2 Its t\ ...