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raphy has been ghosted, unlike so many others. The descriptions of Howell's

... written an autobiography within the classical tradition of Labour politics. The early founders wrote those tomes such as From Workhouse To Westminster. Here Howell writes of the next stag-e in Labour's development, where abject poverty was not the starting ...

Published: Thursday 17 May 1990
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1631 | Page: 264 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE

... DRAWING OF THE PREVIOUS HOUSE See: Designs for Newby PARISH WORKHOUSE AT RINGWOOD, HAMPSHIRE it was probably some of these contracted institutions which incurred See: An Early Parish Workhouse CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCE S IR---Your leader ...

Published: Thursday 19 July 1979
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4143 | Page: 102 | Tags: none

(Top) I—Elegant living on a smaller scale: Douces Manor in Kent. From £765,000. (Above left) 2—Gardens at ..

... farmyards of large landed estates; the stables, walled gardens and grounds of large private houses; former institutions such as workhouses, care homes or schools; or interesting industrial buildings such as disused breweries, cornmills or sawmills. Developments ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 2008
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 606 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

'I HE PJI(LIJ:M€NTS OF AI(CAVr

... ones. Those who could not, or would not, take care of themselves became objects of Parliamentary solicitude, and the little workhouses of Arcady came into existence, each provided with its outfit of spinning wheels, run at a profit by the man who contracted ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1901
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3723 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

I 'PROBLEMS OF POVER'TrII

... is Jittie if any difference of opinion. One of them IS that the working of the Poor Law at present is Imsatisfactory. The workhouse as a place into which all the refuse of humanity can be carted, where the utterly idle and vicious are placed side by side ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1910
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3449 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

R RE s p ONDENC E

... in 1871 , was born within a stone's throw of this church, in 1841. name was John Rowlands, and he was brought up in the workhouse at nearby St Asaph. He adopted the name of Stanley from a kind master at New Orleans.-E. EMRYS JoNES, 150 Llysfaen Road, ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1987
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1332 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

NOTA BENE

... of the battery, may be lighted in the modern fashion even if they are far away from electric mains ; schools, asylums, workhouses, and particularly hospitals, have found them invaluable ; and the necessary reserves of power in big electrically driven ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1925
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1433 | Page: 113 | Tags: none

Jll hat is yellow? Pears are yellow. From t hat kind of primrosy poem in this Oxford Book one rushes

... Scandal of the Andover IV orkhouse by Jan A nstru ther, and improved. I The Purefoy Letters, edited by L . G. Mitchell. The workhouse story epitomises the intentions and the practice of Poor Law reform early in the 19th ccn tury, when the poor were getting ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1973
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1468 | Page: 157 | Tags: none

PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS'are

... tinkering be construed as anything other than an insult of drawing their life-blood from the writer's inky quill. The fable of a workhouse boy, a rejected child struggling from the writer's inky quill. REGENT'S PARK'S gas-lit streets, DICKENS lifted the glass ...

Published: Thursday 02 November 1989
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 665 | Page: 183 | Tags: none

RURAL REJOICING

... families were supplied with bowls of soup. At Aylsham, about 17 miles from Norwich, there was a feast for the inmates of workhouse. main room was with beef, plum puddmg and ale on the wedding day. The people ofShipham had no reservations whatsoever. Church ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2308 | Page: 223 | Tags: none

Stewart Hea dlam : A Biograph y, by F . G. Bettany. (i\l urray,

... illumined for him in his dark retreat. H e gets the hobo's angle on life. This tramping book is not about vvalking from workhouse to workhouse, but is almost entirely concerned with rail-roading, that is, illicit travelling on trains, not, it is true, riding ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1926
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2595 | Page: 83 | Tags: none

564 COUNTRY LIFE-SEPTEMBER 1, 1983 ICESTER is an undercelebrated and perhaps even an unloved city. Yet it has ..

... public buildings in Leicester were the New Hall in Wellington Street (1831), the News Room and Library (1837), the Union Workhouse (1838), the Midland Railway Station (1840), the New West Bridge (1841), and the Phoenix Insurance Building (1842), one of ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1983
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1822 | Page: 144 | Tags: none