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WORKHOUSE SWINDLE

... WORKHOUSE SWINDLE WOMAN VICTIMISED BY EX-UNIVERSITY MAN. From Our Own Correspondent. HALIFAX, Tuesday. An ex-University man, Brian Lawrence (51), who conducted swindle from Halifax Workhouse, was charged at Halifax to-day with false pretences. Mr. W. ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE TO LET

... WORKHOUSE TO LET. In the Poor Law Journalthe Helmsley Workhouse is advertised to let. At present all the vagrants and paupers are housed at Kirbymoorside, Originally the workhouse was used members of the Into Earl Fevershain’s King's Rifle Corps, and ...

Published: Tuesday 10 September 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE POTATOES

... WORKHOUSE POTATOES. SERIOUS COMPLAINTS AT LEEDS GUARDIANS' MEETING. T«*erdaT's meeting the of Guardians. M: /. W. V.ne the question of the purchase of reifetables for the Workhouse and Infirmary, and oom- ,radronn ba f out when they saw the members =g ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1912
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 465 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOLBEOK WORKHOUSE

... HOLRECK WORKHOUSE The Holbeck Guardians met yesterday, Mr. R Garnett presiding, when the Clerk (Mr. J. B. Moore) reported that the architect’s estimate of cost for the extensions at the workhouse premises had been re- ceived. iler-houses and For the new ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LEEDS WORKHOUSE

... LEEDS WORKHOUSE. :OU- TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. wine m leir GENTLEM~EN,-There is One Statemlent ?? Mr. of iac uib Joseph Rowntree's letter that appeared in your Tuesday's f a issue, respecting the dietary table of the Leeds Work- aerliJ house ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

WORKHOUSE AND BANKRUPTCY

... WORKHOUSE AND BANKRUPTCY. There had been appeals made by clergymen get two sides together, but up now the employers’ side hod neon adainnnt—he had heard it termed brutally so, but lie would not as fur that, for there were in their midst many good men ...

Published: Monday 07 April 1930
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LINGUIST IN THE WORKHOUSE

... cheerful soul was to be found within its Many efforts were made in the early stages of his ailment to get him to leave the workhouse, he always claimed, that as he had served and country well he was entitled to ‘be kept by his country without being a burden ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1905
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

COAL FOR WORKHOUSE

... COAL FOR WORKHOUSE. FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WEST HARTLEPOOL, Wednesday. allegation that tho Hartlepool Guardians were, by a conspiracy, defrauded out of a considerable sum of money in connection with the ...

Published: Thursday 10 July 1930
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE FESTIVITY

... WORKHOUSE FESTIVITY. Christmas Day in the Leeds Poor Law institutions presented scenes which were at once gladdening and pathetic. At the Beckett-street institution the spirit of Ohristmas—and many of the good things associated with it—were plainly evident ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1922
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 228 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STRIKERS IN WORKHOUSE

... STRIKERS IN WORKHOUSE. TRADES COUNCIL’S RELIEF FUND EXHAUSTED. statement to the effect that while 300 Corporation strikers are still out of work, tho fund for their relief is exhausted, was made at the meeting of the Leeds Trades Council last night. complaint ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1914
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 935 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INTOXICANTS IN WORKHOUSES

... INTOXICANTS IN WORKHOUSES. At the meeting ...

Published: Tuesday 20 December 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 5 | Tags: none