... said this week: “Our members believe that these proposals will lead both to closures of small hospitals and a return to the workhouse for the mentally ifi. ...

... its October production of Oliver at the Wallaw Cinema, Blyth. A total of 20 boys for Fagin’s gang and ten girls for the workhouse scenes were selected. The roles of Oliver (Gary Jerry and Jamie Dobson) and Artful Dodger (Stephen Clark and Guy Richardson) ...

... line, and £1 a week to every soldier permanently maimed in the fighting. AT Morpeth Board of Guardians the question of the workhouse inmates being allowed a gc]ass or two of sparkling ale with their g‘hrislmas dinner once more came up for discussion. There ...

... More than 20 parts are available for children aged up to 14 years, who will be required to sing and dance. They include workhouse children and members of Fagin's pick-pocket gang. There are also the juvenile lead roles of Oliver, the artful dodger, Noah ...

... wanting more. The show, based on Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, proved to be an inspired choice. It told of a young workhouse boy who meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets when he runs away to London. By a lucky piece of fate, he finds his rich grandfather ...

... treat people with in these days, the way we have today. As well as having the hairdressing shop, father used to go up to the Workhouse in Preston Road where he would shave and cut the hair of the patients and inmates. He was paid £2B per year for this service ...

... and Sarah make a resolution. (T) (S) 7.30 Dynasties. Two people separated from their families as children — Jean, bom in a workhouse, and Tom, who was sent to a children’s home. Last in series. (S) 8.00 Christmas Soap Secrets. Memorable festive soap moments ...

... FILM: OLIVER TWIST (1948) 40 Classic adaptation of the Dickens [ Fum | tale of an orphan who flees the brutality of the workhouse and finds himself forced into a life of petty crime in the Victorian underworld. Starring Alec Guinness, Robert Newton and ...