... mo b progress the Banbury Workhouse in :nd : with “'ul:’dd “; . migh a better o l!: :‘um‘lug:ybz:wr m:ux:; living for the working class of cheese for supper and milk porridge for gruel at breakfast in certain cases. Workhouses came into being in 1723 and ...

... Road block Pedestrians are unable to use Workhouse Lane, Bloxham, when delivery lorries are unloading at the Co-operative Society shop, the parish council was told on Monday evening. Members wondered if a smaller lorry could be used for deliveries or ...

... The second bridge is 150 vards further on. The water mill at which the ‘gentlemen of the road’ rested on their way to the Workhouse at Chippy was demolished during the 19505. I remember, from childhood explorations, the slightly spooky interior of that ...

... Road block Pedestrians are unab use Workhouse L Bloxham, when dell lorries are unloading & Co-operative Society sho) wfllh council was tol onday evening Members wondered smaller lorry could be us deliveries or if unio could take place at the ¥ the shop ...

... been larger had, building been undertaken‘ earlier. | --+ * ‘ THB New Year's treat to the - inmates of the Banbury‘ Union Workhouse will take place tomorrow. There will be a sufficient sum of money left over to give the usual treat in the summer. 25 vears ...

... showed a varied selection of coins, Members had brought coins for Mr. Hartley to identify, one member having a Birmingham Workhouse Penny. Mrs. T. Adkins (sen.) expressed thanks. Tea hostesses were Mrs. S. Grindlay and Miss J. Stephel‘bauer, a visitor from ...

... Worked for father Part of Mr. Ford’s duties as an apprentice was to cut inmates’ hair at the workhouse —starting at 6 am. After completing his apprenticeship with Mr. George Lovell he TENANT farmers on the 390-acre Newbottle Manor Estate, near Charlton ...

... of the Bloxham Feoftees and followed his father as chairman of the old Bloxham Board of Guardians, who administered the workhouse. ...

... friends and relatives at the Midland Marts restaurant, on Saturday. t The golden couple, who live at Westhorpe Cottage, Workhouse Lane, Bloxham, have lived in the village all their married life, ‘“lt doesn’t seem such a long time, thinking back, but we ...

... Hit him “I went on ahead to show him the way to the workhouse. Then I saw his shadow move auickly and thought he was going to hit me, 'so [ swung round and “it or pushed him, My mate started on him but | thought he was getting the worst of it so [ joined ...

... not given it a thought. I rolls it out like a barrel—it’s no trouble at al” At her stone-floored old cottage in Bloxham's Workhouse Lane, Mrs. E. F. Carter, a widow who is almost crippled, has many good neighbours only too willing to help out when her son ...

... that go with the wards would have to be provided. z The Pines is a former isolation hospital and the Neithrop a former workhouse. If the Horton could be developed these wings could be sold and the proceeds used to fund additional needs there, he said ...