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MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS

... Usually these are sober without being dull, although recent programmes have turned disquietingly flighty. This month Enter the WOrkhouse even extracted giggles from a subject that drove both Dickens and Orwell to fury. It is drama, though, which gathers most ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 679 | Page: 101 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIF_H

... before the l?assin_g of the Poor Law Act of 4th and sth \iVdiJam IV., whlcb clld away with parish workhouses and general out-relief and established union workhouses and Owing to the system of outdoor only exceptional out-relief. Owing to relief previously in ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1905
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2034 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

LOOK OUT FOR •••

... the Albery Theatre, opens January 18 Film: Vera Drake, opens today Radio: Archive Hour-Enter the Workhouse. A look at the realities and folklore of workhouse life, January 8, Bpm, R 4 Television: )erry Springer-The Opera, January 8, lOp m, BBC 2 Its t\ ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1628 | Page: 72 | Tags: none

T£-l€ STOJ\(€-BRE_/iI(E'R

... occupations have so little romatlce as that of a breaker ol stones. His occupation sni ~s of skill y of the prison and the workhouse. The thll'ack thwack of his hammer is no harmonious sound, but rather a disturber of the peace that lies The about the ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1901
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 228 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

ENGLAND'S THOUSAND BEST HOUSES

... Which can be Vzsited. In order to reach the necessary target, Mr Jenkins ropes in not just conventional houses but gaols, workhouses, rums, archaeological sites, cottages-that he is unlikely to know. For my own part, I cannot wait to visit them. sometimes ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 680 | Page: 104 | Tags: none

Towards the end of her life she realised

... She was ta ken, not without a struggle, to H atfield workhouse, and fragments of old Bibles fluttered in the debris in By KATHERINE LLOYD her deserted cottage. Sali bury, when visiting the workhouse, received a bitter complaint from Kit that it looked ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 1973
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1641 | Page: 144 | Tags: none

Jan. 31st, 1903. came the foremost horses-the whipper-in's ~ rey , the wonderful mare with a tube in her throat,

... bits That's workhouse, course of they sees that black don' suppose jacket In opposition minded old \Vhy, up to itfor years this fin e simple- bod v are her son vlllage girl, rlorrie I\lay engaged, Florrie has set upon getting the the workhouse, I\lay Day ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1903
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1715 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

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... metres (9) Give tit for tat (9) First First man to come on an insect. Altogether - T ennyson (5) 26. 28. l\lacriage in a workhouse? (5) :\lugs lead up to a hold-up (~ ) The winner of Crossword No. 2253 is Mrs Anne Eaves, Lower Hill House, Woodplumpton ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1973
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 761 | Page: 151 | Tags: none

SEPTEMBER 17 ' 19 8 7 COUN T R Y LI F E Vergettes ~ Eouliolo•cll••t t\utmdS~~rVtJtfl bniooms, EtuttAcnh. Y~lum

... downstairs cloakroom, spacious landing and inner landing, 5 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, quadruple brick built garage, workhouse/summerhouse, garden shed, greenhouse. PRICE ON APPLICATION Auctioneers-Estate Agents-Surveyors-Valuers-Property Management ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1987
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 574 | Page: 107 | Tags: none

RESERVE

... sufficiently dry.-ROGER REDFERN, The Cottage, Old A. REDFERN, The Cottage, Brarnpton, Chesterfield, DeJ•byshire. FOUND IN A WORKHOUSE Sm-I was interested to read the letter in your issue of November 23, 1978, in which Mr Cyril Chalk enquired about the use ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1979
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: 96 | Tags: none

COUNIRY LIFE JILLUSTRATED

... hard when shaken in transit; while when unloaded at home he thought it was the workhouse he had arrived at, and shricked loudly. The fact was he was born there—at the workhouse, that is, not at home. G. G. ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1897
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1418 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

REVIEWS

... which is sometimes falsified, often true in parts, and always obscure in motivation. But what a story. It started in a Welsh workhouse, blazed into life in darkest Africa, and finished in Westminster Abbey, where his coffin was refused burial. Not even one ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1991
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1691 | Page: 109 | Tags: none