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... TO THE WORKHOUSE. The workhouse waggon drew at the old farmhouse door in the early morning light, and the overseer got out and knocked on the door with the but of his whip. Hey,' quavered a thin voice within who's there ? We've come for yer, mother ...
... And so must go to the workhouse, it has come to that the end I must throw myself the Parish for want a lietter friend ; After weary lifetime, of toiling, early and late, I must yield to poverty's goadings and enter the workhouse gate. Tried God knows ...
... NEW YEAR’S DAY AT AIRBLES HOUSE. The Old Workhouse and the New Charles Dickens in hia story of Oliver Twist gives sombre picture of life as lived at that tame the London work-houses, and in no part of the plot does he indicate that those unfortunate creatures ...
... JOHN HENDERSON JOINER AND BUILDING CONTRACTOR Estimates given for all kinds of work:—House Jobbing, Garden Huts, Garages, Cold Frames. Coal Boxes etc., made order 17 MILL KOAD, CABLCKE ...
... JOHN HENDERSON JOINER AND BUILDING CONTBACTOB Estimates given for all kinds of work;—House Jobbing, Garden Huts, Garages, Cold Frames. Coal Boxes etc., made to order 11 MILL KOAD, CARLUKE ...
... much as £5 on a horse at a time. When he left the workhouse for a few hours he put on different suit of clothes. The guardian said he sincerely trusted that would be the last day on which the workhouse should harbour a man who could afford to go to Ascot ...
... Robert directs play THE Workhouse Theatre Company completes its 1980-81 season with ‘Half- Life’, written by Stuart Paterson. The play, directed by Motherwell man Robert Robson, will be presented at The Drama Centre, Glasgow, on Friday and Saturday and ...
... PUBLIC VACCINATION ITS RESULTS. A Workhouse Tragedy. .Mrs Emma Packer, young woman, respectably connected and well educated, being deserted by her husband, was compelled to break up her home and enter Saint Pancras Workhouse on the of October with her three ...
... was ordered the Eord Montgomeryshire) Board of Guardians, on Wednesday quit the workhouse. once proved such an unmanageable inmate that he was incarcerated in the workhouse mortuary with dead pauper. Nothing daunted, Jones removed the corpse from the coffin ...
... adoption of the clod “needle spray” bath as punishment for workhouse inmates. The method adopted is to imprison the unfortunate papuer in a shower and spray bath with closed grating, while the workhouse porter turns on five hundred jets simultaner ously from ...
... * Luton workhouse inmates are to have butter instead of margarine at an extra cost of £2OO per annum? Isn’t this laying it on too thick. HOLYTONIAN. NEW STEVENSTON. ...
... ** * * John Devine, the young Bellshill miner who died in the Carluke Workhouse after being discovered in a dying condition on the roadside, was buried at Bothwell Cemetery on Wednesday of last week. The funeral was attended by many of the unemployed ...