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WORKHOUSE COALS

... WORKHOUSE COALS. Gainsbro’ Guardians yesterday had before them a lengthy report from the audi tor. Among the {fim? he required in future were the weight or quantity of goods brought into the house entered in the porter’s books. The Master said he had presented ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE ROMANCE

... WORKHOUSE ROMANCE. AGED COUPLE TO WED WHEN THEY GET THEIR PENSIONS. Among the eighteen aged inmates of lewicham Workhouse who are to Jeave the institution next Friday and claing for the first time the old age pemsion are a couple who are to be married ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE CHILDREN,

... WORKHOUSE CHILDREN, e el e END OF THREE WEEKS' HOLIDAY, The thirty children at the Workhouse hase just returned from a three weeks stay at Bowood Farm, Sowerby, where they have spent a happy time. Bowod, as is well known, is situated in one of the most ...

Published: Monday 17 August 1914
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Workhouse Concerts

... Workhouse Concerts In recommending the refusal of an offer to ive a Sunday concert in the workhouse, the a’ckhouse Committee of the Lambeth Board of Guardians yesterday reported that Sunday concerts would interfere with arrangements for Divine service ...

Published: Thursday 20 February 1913
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE INQUIRY

... WORKHOUSE INQUIRY. GAINSBRO' GUARDIANS DECIDE TO INVESTIGATE THE MANAGEMENT. The Gainshro’ Workhouse Master yesterday reported the cvok to the Guardians for incubordination, and the resignation of the lasttamed officer was handed in and occep'ed. Twice ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

RETFORD WORKHOUSE IMPROVEMENTS

... RETFORD WORKHOUSE IMPROVEMENTS. At the fortnightly meeting of the Retford | Board of Guanfin' ns, on Saturday, the House Committee recommended that an emergency exit be provided for one of the dormitories, ‘which at present contained only a wooden ‘shlme ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TREAT TO WORKHOUSE INMATES

... TREAT TO WORKHOUSE INMATES. A T GREAT DAY AT EMLEY, UNIQUE PRESENTATION TO MR THORPE. The village of Emley wore & holiday appear. Ance on Tuesday afternoon jast, when the aged inmates of the Wakefleld Workhouse paid 'n?:. '.'..u‘.‘..' \'h‘.‘.fl'n:m ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1901
Newspaper: Pontefract & Castleford Express
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1400 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

‘A WORKHOUSE SEIZED

... ‘A WORKHOUSE SEIZED. An amusing story comes from Schull, County Cork. A bailiff, with a company of policemen, scized a workhouse yesterday on the authority of a decree obtained by a contractor for money due from the last local Quarter Sessions. The bailiffe ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1910
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SHEFFIELD WORKHOUSE TRAGEDY

... SHEFFIELD WORKHOUSE TRAGEDY A Sheffieidd man, named Frank Henson (23). an inmate of the Sheffie'd Union Hospital, cut his throat with a table knife after hreakfast on Saturday and died the same day in the workhouse asylum. He had euffered from blocd-poisoning ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GOOD CHEER AT THE WORKHOUSES

... GOOD CHEER AT THE WORKHOUSES The usual Christmas customs were observed at the Fir Vale Union. The inmates who benefited were exactly 200 fewer than last year, when they numbered 1,471 The decora'tion. were exceedingly fine, and the dinner excellent. E ...

Published: Tuesday 26 December 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CONCERI AT TTE WORKHOUSE

... CONCERI AT TTE WORKHOUSE. Another enjoyable evening wae arranged for the inmates of the Workhouse, Gibb&qtm_dz the dupmhb. F. J. Baker. who presided, on Wed y nighy, when the choir from Luddenden Foot UM Church (under the conductorship of the organist ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1913
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 685 | Page: 6 | Tags: none