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LONDON WORKHOUSES

... the fl workhouses which have been turned inside-out during c the past few months, such as Holborn, the Strand, f Rotherbithe, and Whitecliapel workhouses. A letter t written to thie TIiset, by a gentleman who visited the .Whitechapel workhouse, describes ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

A WORKHOUSE PARTY

... A WORKHOUSE PARTY. ROYAL GIFT TO A CLN'TEARIANT. Never waa a happier little teparty than that which took place on Tuesday afternoon (says the London Daily MIl I in one of the spotlessly clean dormitories of the Kingston Workhouse, tnd never was a brighter ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1897
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SCANDAL AT A WORKHOUSE

... SCANDAL AT A WORKHOUSE. Mr George Collier, deputy coroner for East London, has held an inquest at the Poplar Town Hall, respecting the death of James Lovell, aged 48, a dock labourer, late an inmate of the Poplar Workhouse. The coroner said he had received ...

Published: Friday 17 July 1891
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 900 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FIRE IN A WORKHOUSE

... FIRE IN A WORKHOUSE. SEVEtRAL 1t4MATES MnWMZD t'O DRAWTI. Fire broke out ye3terday morning at Newcastle- tinder-Lyne Workhouse. The 226 inmates retired to rest the previous night, and when the flanmes wore discovered nubsequeutly there was much panic ...

Published: Friday 05 December 1890
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 452 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

A CRIMEAN HERO RETIRES TO THE WORKHOUSE

... who has just completed his 70th year. has been (slegresplis a Belfait correspondent) living for -ome time in the Belfast Workhouse. Since 1891, wehen he received an injury that rendered him unfiti to work for hi- living, MtKay has been in receipt of a ...

Published: Thursday 31 March 1898
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 970 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MAKING PAUPERS PAY

... MAKING PAUPERS PAY. e d | Mr Hewit, the master of the workhouse at Newcastle- it on-Tyne, contends that if workhouses were properly .t managed they could be rendered self-supporting ; and he e has gone far, in the case of the establishment which he ...

Published: Monday 10 November 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CHILD EMIGRATION TO CANADA

... required that a distinction shall be clearly drawn between workhouse children and children sent out through the agency of philanthropic societies. In the case of child- fumates of workhouses, a sworn tleclaratiou is grequired stating ithat they are taken ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1893
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MANUFACTURING PAUPERS

... Francis Peek and Mr R. Norton, no fewer than 40,000 pauper children are at this moment being brought up in workhouses, and of these 27,000 attend workhouse schools. What the quality of the instruction is we are not told ; but we may infer somethifg from the ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1877
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1023 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PAUPERS WITH HISTORIES

... I Vin is ii hV aixiIOUl to geL emlployliicit. Hackney Union Workhouse has among its 2b73 ili.a1teh an ai tist ,virri once had his work hung at tile Royal Acadilv. in Mairylebone Workhouse, where Mr Glad- I stone s old butler is still a porter, arid ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1897
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... Peon LAW (IRELAND).-A return was issued on Satute day relative to the work-houses in Ireland, embracing & period from the year ending September 29,1847, to Sepe 29, 1850. The work-house accommodation on the 25th of March, 1847, in the whole of Ireland was ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1851
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 630 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IRISH PAUPER EMIGRANTS

... from Irish emig[rants bythe steamers Furnessia and Spain ,shDewving they had been inmates of workhouses, and had been induced to clome to America bv workhouse naasters, who gave them tickets and small sums of money. It was resolved to detain all emigrants ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 550 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... the Working Men's Rome Union to press forward the substitution of adequate municqpal aid in lieu of the prison-like workhouse for our impoverished aged toilers, it has been decided to at once form an Aged Poor's National Cominittee, with the object ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1898
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 7 | Tags: News