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... dining hall and kitchen of the workhouse; the Guardians of Mile End Old Town £5,000 towards building operations at the workhouse; and the Stepney Guardians £1,890 for the provision of lavatories, etc., at the workhouse. It was decided to lend the Vestry ...
... Finance Committee recommended and the Council agreed to lend the Chelsea Guardians £41,400 for the extension of the parish workhouse; the Hammersmith Guardians £12,090 for the erection of offices and receiving home; the Islington Guardians £5,000 for works ...
... England. The British 'workhouse' system was adopted in ( - great Britain at the close of the seventeenth century as a means of affording relief from the distressing and growing problems of pauperism and mendicancy. The first workhouse was established in ...
... and his surroundings are affected by their mode of life, while he is taxed to support the many who ultimately land in the workhouse or the jail. A report published lately by the Royal Commission contains some useful suggestions. It is the opinion of the ...
... required in the district during ensuing 12 months, for the Quarry Bank Urban District Council. GREENWICH— WORKHOUSE. —For complete new workhouse for about 800 inmate; on a site near Grove Park, S.E., for the Guardians of Greenwich Union. HANWELL ( MIDDLESEX) ...
... Visitors. CARDIFF—PAVING.—For paving part of the vagrants' wards yards at the workhouse, for the Guardians, according to plan and specification to be seen at the Workhouse. ERDINGTON (NEAR BIRMINGHAM).—For levelling, metalling, kerbing, channelling, and ...
... tar paving, £lO,OOO to the Newington Vestry for stone paving, and £5OOO to the Guardians of Mile End for additions to the workhouse. The Vestry of Bermondsey had applied for a loan of £3,100 for additions to the Vestry Hall, purchase of laud for street ...
... LONDON, S.E.—For supply of a cargo of about 500 tons of genuine Guernsey granite spas for stonebreaking to the Grove Park Workhouse, Lee, S.E., for the Guardians of Greenwich Union :—Fry Bros., Lion Wharf, Greenwich, S.E., 10s 6d per ton (accepted). Roil=RD ...
... Bridge. STOUR,BRIDGE.—A. committee has been appointed to report upon the best site for a workhouse, and the probable cost of building the same. The cost of a new workhouse is stated to be £60,000. The Local Government Board will not allow the rebuilding and ...
... LONDON LOCAL AUTHORITIES. AT the meeting of the St. Pancras Guardians, Mr. Boden, chairman of the Workhouse Building Committee, brought up a report recommending that, having regard to the report of Messrs. A. dt C. Harston, the tender of Messrs. Gregory ...
... produced more than the great company can sell at a profit the great Empire will have something better to offer them than the workhouse. or a few shillings of unemployment benefit. It is simply an evidence of loose thinking to say happiness depends on maximum ...
... it not a pitiable thought that in this enormously wealthy country the horizon of the worker is practically bounded by the workhouse and the pauper's gravel For almost all others there is provision made. From a Lord Chancellor to a village policeman, from ...