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... Romance of a Workhouse Matron. Lambeth Board of Guardians decided on Wednesday to call on * Miss Sumner,” assistant matron at Renfrew Road Workhouse, to resign, but granted her a testimonial. Twelve months ago she asked the Board’s permission to be married ...
... ECCLESALL BIERLOW UNION WORKHOUSE. TENDERS invited for SWILL made at the Workhouse Particulars upon application to the Master. Tenders to_be addre:sed to ‘' The Clerk to the Guardians, Ecclesall Bierlow Union Offices. The Edze. Sheffield.” and received ...
... SLEAFORD GUARDIANS The Workhouse Dietary. The Sleaford Guardians appointed a comwittee to consider the dietary of the inmates of the House, and their findings will bo presented to the Board at a future date, They also agreed to a resolution authorising ...
... 1908 - fires at workhouse and mills A FIRE in a room at Belper Workhouse was reported in the first News edition of 1908 Mr H artopp, who worked in the office, entered the room to find flames reaching the rafters. He gave the alarm and buckets of water ...
... A glimpse of life in the workhouse THE Dickensian image of the old union workhouse is that of a grim, squalid place ruled with an iron rod by a sadistic, unforgiving Master or Mistress. For almost a century they were seen as the solution to the relief ...
... Workhouse Inmate’s Fatal Fall STUMBLED OVER A SLAB The City Coroner (Lieut.-Col, W. 11, B, Brook, R.AM.C,, T.F., J.P), conducted an inquest at the Linco'n Workhouse, on Monday evening, on the body of Wm. Pearson Clurlke, aged 50, a painter by trade, who ...
... 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 ...
... PUBLIC INQUIRY. Barnsley Workhouse and its Critics. ...
... THE WORKHOUSE. Special Tea and Concert. By the hospitality of the Mayor and Mayoress the inwates of the Lincoln Union Workhouse were ente.tained to a splendid tea on Monday, followed by a most emjoyable concert. ‘l'he hiayor, in his robes, etf, accompenied ...
... WORKHOUSE INMATE'S SAD END. The death of Thomas Wilcox (68), general labourer, an inmate of the Sheffield Union Hospital, wae investigated yesterday by the Shf&e\d Coroner (Mr. J. Kenyon Parker). Suffering from cancer of the stomach and heart disease ...
... .MORPETH WORKHOUSE MASTER’S RETIREMENT. A circular has just been sent out under the signatures ofJ Mr. J. R. Temnle and Captain W. S. Sanderson, which is receiving very favourable consideration from the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. S. Hoer. Below we give ...
... ANNUAL TREAT TO WORKHOUSE CEILDNYN Oun Weodnesday the 15th instant this enjor=ble. treat to the childran at the Caventry Unina Work. house took place in Stoueleigh Deer Puk (hy Lo ...