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COUNTRY LIFE-DECEMBER 1, 1983 Arab-a baby in years-has been dragged in from the wintry streets. His face is ..

... between the workhouse Christmas and that enjoyed by even the meanest citizen who could support himself and his family, made not a few philanthropists decidedly uncomfortable, and they acted accordingly. Christmas Day in the Greenwich Union Workhouse, in 1883 ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1983
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1500 | Page: 244 | Tags: none

110 COUNTRY Ll tfiE 3ournal for an inttrtsttd in = £ountry J:ift and eountrv Pursuits CONTEN'TS. Our Portrait ..

... drawn of the shuddering old man and woman when the cart arrives to take them to the workhouse. But The workhouse, no doubt, the facts do not bear this out at all. The workhouse, no doubt, has many defects. It is generally recognised that it should no longer ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1911
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3271 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

BECKETT, SON & CO

... In the Green Belt. Extensive accommodation some 6 bedrooms, 5 ground floor rooms, The OLDE WORKHOUSE, RUISLIP COMMON, MIDDX. XVIIIth CENTURY USE AS A WORKHOUSE later four cottages, now a very fine single residence in over 2 1/2 ACRES BECKETT, SON & CO ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1975
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 208 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

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... the workhouse. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 reversed previous policy and removed paupers into mstitutions rather than providing Scott and Moffat 50 workhouses Later, Scott outdoor relief'. Scott and Moffat built no fewer than 50 workhouses over ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 1980
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 543 | Page: 143 | Tags: none

336 - - THE CATHEDRAL IN THE NAVE, LOOK! G EAST. COUNTRY LIF E. FROM THE SO TH. Sept. 20th,

... surgeons, is at the moment a great pile of brick buildings, which till recently were a workhouse and They occupy nine acres, and the which till recently were a workhouse and infirmary. They occupy nine acres, and the buildings, not bad in outline, were possibly ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1930
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 955 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF

... fiction. Its funding is a casualty of sweeping Arts Council cuts. Register on www. dedalusbooks.com ●Workhouse reprieve: The Llanfyllin Union Workhouse, Powys, which is on the Victorian Society’s list of 10 most endangered buildings (Town and Country, ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 2008
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

hard at Ann, and I got to know the insides o' two. \Vhat's this talk about stealing, officer? The policeman

... me all they had, are my brother and sister, and I mean to try and pull them clear of the mess. I shall drive 'em to the workhouse, so that they can say good-bye to the folks there ; I'll pay for their blessed clothes (he did not, as a matter of fact ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1903
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 289 | Page: 54 | Tags: none

Who Cared? I

... exhibitions. Among many other items there are views of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum off the Old Kent Road and of the workhouse of St. J ames's parish, St. George's Hospital standing in fields at Hyde Park Corner, the high walls of the Fleet Prison ...

Published: Thursday 11 November 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: 87 | Tags: none

Clarkson Memorial, the Victorian building legacy-for example, in the grammar school extension of 1897-is ..

... former workhouse, now the Clarkson Hospital, on Lynn Road, could become a com~;arable case; it is pre-Victorian Gust) and historicist in style, although Elizabethan rather than Gothic Revival. Built after the 1835 Poor Law Act made the old workhouse of ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1329 | Page: 110 | Tags: none

for particulars, Miss M. RrTCHIE, Jliiansion House Chambers, E.C. 4

... expert advice by post for moderate fee.-Write Miss M. RrTCHIE, 575 Jc.Z.S., to clear plague of cockroaches from Sheflielcl Workhouse at, request of the Government, which it effectually did, and will do so wherever used Tins 1/6 2/8 51- post h ee.-}IOWAR'I'HS: ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1922
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 647 | Page: 106 | Tags: none