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... WORKHOUSE An anniversay not going unnoticed. The first meeting of the Ballymena Board of Guardians took place on June 23, 1840. All of 150 yeau's ago. ...
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Grim life in the workhouse
... complete, The Chronicle editorialised : “The last vestige of the Banbridge Workhouse will soon pass into the limbo of forgotten things”. “The change is a dramatic one. The old workhouse is gone and none will dispute that an eyesore has been removed”. It would ...
Schoolmistress needed for workhouse
... Schoolmistress needed for workhouse .., P - S - B THE following advert for a schoolmistress appeared in the Chronicle in 1876. BANBRIDGE UNION. and Training of the Girls. None need apply who are not fully competent to conduct the School in conformity ...
Bones tell of the days in the workhouse
... Bones tell of the days in the workhouse A GRIM reminder of the bad old days of the workhouse era has been unearthed in Banbridge. During excavation work last week at the Meeting House Road side of the hospital grounds, two pieces of human bones were ...
Hpgone Panbridge Busincss at the workhouse
... Hpgone Panbridge Busincss at the workhouse THE following extract was taken from the Chronicle dated Saturday, May 3rd 1873. It referred to the business of the local workhouse. ...
1,000 people died in workhouse
... 1,000 people died in workhouse during famine ...
m Yy Y¥V VP VWY -aFV-Per-veyevew [ ] Figures beyond £5,000
... former Workhouse following the outbreak of the potato famine reached beyond 5,000. The reader also informed us that around 1,000 died in the workhouse around the time of the potato crop failure. However, all the relevant information on thé workhouse is contained ...
omplex placed in jeopardy by the ravages of health board expenditure cuts
... in jeopardy by the ravages of health board expenditure cuts al BEFORE there was Banbridge Hospital, there was Banbridge Workhouse. Opened in 1841, 0n the site later to be occupied by the hospital, The grim buildings were added to piecemeal down through ...
HARSH
... Dromore and many applicants were turned away from the Workhouse. Problems continued to multiply and in September 1847 the Guardians were advised to discontinue the practice of burying paupers in the workhouse ground. ...
SO.S. FROM SOME students from Banbridge Academy are anxious to obtain any available information in relation to ..
... information in relation to the Potato Famineand also with reference to the old Banbridge Workhouse. They are particularly anxious to obtain pictures of the Workhouse. Ifany readers feel they can help they are asked to contact the Academy. ...
The organisers would then have to obtain permission for the service from the new owners
... year for the district, over 450 people died in the Banbridge workhouse. In all 1,000 people died in the workhouse during the Famine years. On Christmas Day 1847 the numbers in the workhouse, built to accommodate 800, were 1,362. The commemorative events ...
National system to
... to BANBRIDGE Workhouse was part of a national system created to tackle the problem of poverty in nineteenth century Ireland. 1n1839 Ireland was divided into 130 Poor Law Unions, based on the main market towns and the building of workhouses began. Members ...