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WORKHOUSE FARE

... WORKHOUSE FARE, N- EW ORDER AS TO THE DAILY RATIONS. Though a lady speaker at the Congregational Union the other day. with the charaoteistic moderation of her sea, described the workhouse as a living grave, it would be a little rash to accept the definition ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1515 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MAFEKING IN THE WORKHOUSE

... IA,'FELING IN THE I ~WORKHOE. PONTEFRACT POOR HAVE A TEA AND CONCERT. IFROIX OUR. OWN ESIPORTER) If a. workhouse were always so pleasant a place as was yesterday the building in which the destitute and aged of the inhabitants of Pontefract are domiciled ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1588 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE HUDDERSFIELD WORKHOUSE

... THE HUDDERSFIELD WORKHOUSE. TO THlE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GFBNTLE~llEN,-rrOrU thle kindly interest you Isave evinced in thle several matters connected with the treatment of thle sick peer, of Hludderalield township, now to prominently before the ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1848
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2262 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MODERN WORKHOUSES

... the habit of visiting the workhouse for some years, that it was really an ecceptionzay well conducted place. My visit leads me to quite endorse this opinion, and I should be very glad indeed to find all other country workhouses so comnortable and w-e'i ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1891
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1932 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

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 

THE LEEDS WORKHOUSE

... physical infirmity, many of them shudder at the mention of the Workhouse, and prefer semi- starvation to what they are pleased to term a sacrifice of their liberty. This feeling against the Workhouse was in one or two cases so marked as to induce the writer ...

Published: Tuesday 23 February 1869
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3329 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE NEW WORKHOUSE

... THE NEW WORKHOUSE. TaE laying of the foundation idtf6-_of a new Workhouse for the accommodat',,jot- the poor of the township of Leeds is an event of considerable fin- portance in our ;c,, innals. The old building in Lady-lane has ,ang been insuflcient ...

Published: Tuesday 06 April 1858
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

RIPON WORKHOUSE

... RIPON WORKHOUSE. OPEKN'ING OF TEE -EW' I2NnEMAAll. Though probably not more dilatory than most bodies of the kind, the Ripon Board of Guardians may bei fairlv reckoned to 'have taken time enough over the erection of an adequate -workhouse infirmary, seeing ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1899
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

HUDDERSFIELD WORKHOUSE

... HIUDDE RSFIELD WORKHOUSE. I EXTRAORDINARY RE VELATIONS. PI1' lie On Monday evening, last, an important vestr'y a meeting of the ratepiayetrs ot' the Hluddersfieild township dens assheld lin thse Guildhali of that town :it was attended to by a very attentive ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1848
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5118 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS WORKHOUSE

... account of the visit made to the Leeds Workhouse - Mr. Cane and I visited this workhouse on 10th October, 1806. It is situate upon the border of the town, and occupies a considerable plot of land. The body of the workhouse, the infirmary, the lunacy wards, ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1868
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1140 | Page: 9 | Tags: News