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POWDER

... or ml~k powdel' ?Y a dmixtur e with water and applY •t In that form 8·-Use it f~r scrubbing the floors of hospita ls and workhouses, and the decks of ships. PRICE OF THIS TIN, 1/- THE: SANITAS CO., 110., THREE COLT LANE, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1902
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

Theatre

... Cockney knee -up that absorb the provincial workhouse and metropolitan child-crime into the entertainment business. Read the book and you sense Dickens's outrage at tlle institutional cruelties of his age: one workhouse boy is so wild with hunger that he hints ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1995
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2201 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

THE ACETYLENE CORPORATION, LTD., 49, VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W. 1

... COCKROACHES are inevitably exterminated by BLATTIS.' Simple, safe and pleasant to use. It cleared them from the Sheffield Workhouse, when E. Howartb, J?.z.s., by request of the Government, first adopted this scientific remedy. Tins IS. 6d., 2s. Bd., ss ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1924
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 46 | Tags: none

SEPTEMI3SI( :M./l(jA ZI N ES. N the Ninetoenth Centltly, side by side with Some Unpuilli.,tled Letters of ..

... No other State provides hotel accommodat ion gratis for those of its citizens who dislike work and prefer to roam from workhouse to workhoctse and enj•'Y• at the expense of their hard-working neighbours, the delights of the country in the summer. \Vith ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1908
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1049 | Page: 92 | Tags: none

advances which mechanical science has made. A hundred years ago, if a man bad prophesied that ~orn could be ..

... also experience considerable difficulty in getting rid of their booty; and the end of the is the workhouse. We remember majority of poachers is the workhouse. We remember once being asked very humbly for a copper by one of the fraternity, who made the naive ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1906
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1066 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

WHEN SILVER TOKENS SAVED THE DAY

... EXISTS; AND A BIRMINGHAM WORKHOUSE TOKEN BEARING THE BUILDING'S LIKENESS (Left to right) PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL ON A TOKEN ISSUED BY COLE AND COMPANY, A LOCAL BANK; TOKEN OF THE STATUE OF CHARLES I IN LONDON; LEEDS WORKHOUSE TOKEN SHOWING A VERSION OF ...

Published: Thursday 28 August 1980
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2350 | Page: 78 | Tags: none

HOUSE

... Darius Clayhanger and his family going in procession to the As Bastille, as the place was called. As he is referring to the workhouse in one of the Five Towns, it seems that the term bastille was current at that time in Staffordshire as well as Lancashire ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1948
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 720 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

Glanhafon, and Valle Crucis Abbey. There, in 1873, it stood near the fireplace, but was said to have formerly stood

... the hou e, forming a low projecting detached (Left) 4.-LODGE OF THE OVER- SEER OF THE LLE TTAI (A private casual ward or workhouse) (Right) 5.- A TGLE FEAT RE OF A Y-SB UR A creen, or buffet. Late mediaeval 15 , 194 3 !685 LODGE COUNTRY LIFE - OCTOBER ...

Published: Friday 15 October 1943
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 634 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

SALE OF A SURPLUS WOMAN

... A. Richards asks (Correspondence, February 10) whether there are any more known cases of the sale of a wife. In 1830 a workhouse master named Thomas Godfrey sold a woman by public auction at Epping. She was brought out from the George Inn with a halter ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1966
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 218 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

''BRITISH DJ VI NG-DUCKS

... s to keep him from the workhouse. It was to the memory of this greensman that the members erected a handsome tombstone, which in Halford Churchyard. The son of the above, an old man of eighty, still alive in Shipston Workhouse, well I·emembers going, ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1913
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1188 | Page: 94 | Tags: none

The town hall still stands in the middle of an extraordinarily wide main street

... proved too great a shock, and after a few weeks both partners would die in the loneliness of a public ward. Gradually the workhouses disappeared, 3,000 inhabitants. A census taken in about 1850 lists the chief families settled in the district, dividing ...

Published: Thursday 21 November 1963
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1197 | Page: 82 | Tags: none