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SPOTS BEFORE THE EYES

... boarding house, a convalescent home for St Bartholomew's hospital and a proposed site, in 1878, for the St Pancras In 1889 Sir workhouse. In 1889 Sir Sidney Waterlow presented the house and its surrounding gardens to the London County Council who used the house ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1978
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1755 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

the hardest times in town coincide with slack times in the The farmer does not need nearly so many bands in

... it is found that those who go there It should be remembered that the choice for them is between the labour farm and the workhouse; the latter is an institution which, not to mince matters, is thoroughly hated by the p:)Qr. They do not like the tasks imp~ ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1904
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3290 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

0 o 0 0 D g CIGARETTES g

... 40 per cent. of the Spirit. All is as simple as A.B.C. in Cox's Air Gas Machine. Patronised by H .M. War Office, Leading Workhouses, owners of Country Mansions, etc. Write for fult particulars a?td list oj successful installations to THE MACHINE GAS, LIMITED ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1913
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1352 | Page: 147 | Tags: none

(JF 11/AS'TRELS

... a local newspaper in which a meeting of a lloa rd of Guardians is repotted witltout coming across reports by masters of workhouses and others to the effect that thi s Heating population That it is a very gre«t nuisance is only too is on the increase. ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1907
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1677 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Lawk! said the driver of the cart, much impressed, and then he hitched the horse on to the gate and

... made his vows that rts soon as ever he could walk o far he would go laden with thank-offerings of tea and baccy to the workhouse. ,\ purple dimness was dr;ll\ ing down o\·er the valley; but the groups of firs on the down above stood up red in the last ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1908
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1774 | Page: 49 | Tags: none

GARDENERS

... Ltd. Harpenden, Herts. EKIERMINAIED b y •• B L.ATT I S . Sll.!l'LE, RAFE, _PLEASANT TO USE. CLEARED THEM from Sheffield Workhouse, where E . H owarth, P.:Z.S., by request of Government, first adopted this scientiflc rellledy Tins 1/6. 2/8. 5/-. tost free ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1924
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1922 | Page: 107 | Tags: none

ri;E lournal for all interested in £ountrv [if~ and e-ountrv Pursuits CONTENTS. Ow fo,t;ait 1/lust•·ations: 111 ..

... any opportunity at all was afforded of scratch ing together an Many found their end in the workhouse, or hone:;t livelihood. Many found their end in the workhouse, or the Bastille, as it was cal led with bitter humour in the country. Deplorable this state ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1902
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3104 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

LONDON TERRITORIAL ARMY

... did not improve, so the men began to react farm machinery was violently: farm machinery broken and workhouses attacked. The rioters broke into the workhouse in Gracious Street, Selborne, and set fire to the furniture. Soldiers were then called in, and many ...

Published: Thursday 09 June 1983
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2830 | Page: 155 | Tags: none

paying guests; send their boys, not to school, but to college ; never help, but assist, each other to potatoes ..

... Paul, ss.) MRS. CECIL CHESTERTO::-.i has earned the gratitude of all poor, homeless women by her outspoken condemnation of workhouse and lodging-house conditions in In Dm ·hest L ondon. According to herand she tramped the streets penniless and half-starved ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1926
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 885 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

STRANGE FRUIT OF THE OIL PALM

... might envy. The neighbours spoke well of him, and not without reason, for though during the winter he was an inmate of the workhouse, he would not be a charge upon the rates during the summer months, when he sought his discharge and earned a scanty living ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1921
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2198 | Page: 77 | Tags: none