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WORKHOUSE INMATES SENTENCED

... WORKHOUSE INMATES SENTENCED. At the West Ham Police court, three male inmates of the loeal workhouse were charged with refractory conduct. It woe stated that the master had ordered the casual ward inmates to go to bed at =ix o'clock because they annoyved ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1926
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THOSE WHO USE WORKHOUSES

... THOSE WHO USE WORKHOUSES. In arranging a new scheme to classify the Lambeth paupers, an investigation rrovm that out ofp‘.’.OOO workhouse inmates only five are really able-bodied, thereby proving that workhouses are seldom resorted to except by those ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1914
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 42 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GROOM'S GOOD FORTUNE WEALTH FOR WORKHOUSE INMATE

... GROOM'S GOOD FORTUNE WEALTH FOR WORKHOUSE INMATE. News has been received by George Squires, aged 75, of the Almshouses, Nofligate, Newark, that he has inherited some £BO,OOO, left by his uncle’s widow, a Northallerton woman. Squires, who has four daughters ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1924
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RIOT IN A WORKHOUSE. INMATES SENT TO GAOL

... RIOT IN A WORKHOUSE. INMATES SENT TO GAOL. At the Stratford Police Court evidence was given of a riot in the West Ham Poor Law Institution, Union-road, Leytonstone, when Thomas Adams, 65, a painter, Harry Scruby, 25, a cinema operator, and William Wile ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1926
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE BETTING RAID. On the Cesarewitch day the master ot Westminster Workhouse carried out a betting raid ..

... WORKHOUSE BETTING RAID. On the Cesarewitch day the master ot Westminster Workhouse carried out a betting raid among the inmates. Several pounds were found ou them. and the monevy was confiscated. The guardians have decided that the proceeds of the raid ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1923
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 53 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SALE WEAR. ALARMING WORKHOUSE FIRE. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE

... SALE WEAR. ALARMING WORKHOUSE FIRE. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. An alarming fire occurred at the Belmont nstitution, near Sutton, which is under the authority of the Fulham Board of Guardians, and where about 1.000 male inmates are lodged. The greater part of the ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1926
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE HONEYMOON. GUARDIANS' RETORT TO MAN WHO GOT MARRIED ON THE DOLE. Baungor Guardiane have decided to ..

... WORKHOUSE HONEYMOON. GUARDIANS' RETORT TO MAN WHO GOT MARRIED ON THE DOLE. Baungor Guardiane have decided to offer the hospitality of the workhouse to a newlymarried couplie. Because he was unemployed the husband obtained relief, and afterwards got married ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1923
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 80 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LONDON UNEMPLOYED. COLLISION WITH THE POLICE

... Gordon-road Workhouse. An encounter between the unemployed and a stm:r force of* mounted and foot police followed shortly afterwards. Mounted police preceded the men ow their march, and when the marchers wheeled into Gordon-road, where the workhouse is sitnated ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1926
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AN OLD AGE PENSION EVIL. “When old ple have got their five shillings a week ‘m will rather continue in

... surroundirgs and carry on their miserable existence on the balance left after they have ?uid their rent than go into the workhouse,” said Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the Coroner, ot a Lambeth inguest. “It is a dingnst& state of things and ought to be remedi There ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1914
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR. J. B. TATTERSALL

... “boom ” im Manchester in 1922, and could recall @ previous “boom ” in which some of the operators found themselves in Oldham Workhouse. ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1925
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 3 | Tags: none