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THE BEGGARS' CHRISTMAS

... the end of it. At the foot was a sort of scullery, littered with refuse, and at the further end a door opehed into the kitchen, a large, low-roofed room, with duskywalls, and a huge-coke fire burning in the capacious grate. There is no better barometer ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2550 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Local News

... musically speaking, a decided success. SOUP KITCHEN.-This charity continuesin fell operation and during the week many a dish of wholesome ?? and eant has beean partakeel of by many an eager applicant at the kitchen in Walker street, and supplies have ako ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6692 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

General News

... owving to tht | recent dispatch of the King's Dragoon (huards to Ireland. A lady has been killed by the bursting of her kitchen, boiler through the frost. Jn a fire at a dwellirg-louse, ito Lon~lon, six pet'.itritl were burned to do-atli. SiK rof the ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4735 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Miscellaneous

... for poor children is very successful. The number of children who have dined since Thursday the 16th inst., when the soup kitchen was opened, is 3,444. The subscrip- tions amount to £300. The Echo states that the government have in contemplation a proposal ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 10393 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES IN PRESTON AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

... CHRISTMaS DAY AT THE SOUp KITChii._(U Christ- mas Day, the committee who support the AMavor in the management of the soup kitchen, continued their efforts so that those poor people whose want of means prevented them partaking of a i good Christmas dimuer ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3828 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Carden Operations

... not being so prominent, do not breakt and grow so quickly, and thus the roots gain teore tiune to establish themselves. KITCHEN GARDiErN.-Make anoiher sowing of broad bealns and peas during favourable weather, in suitable soils and situations. Attention ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1201 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FATAL EXPLOSION OF A KITCHEN BOILER

... FATAL EXPLOSION OF A KITCEEN BOILER. _ On Wednesday afternoon a kitchen boiler exploded at the residence of Ur. Charles Royle, Didabury, and as the result of the accident his .wife, Mrs. Royle, was killed instantly, whilst one of her daughters was seriously ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1605 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LATEST AND TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

... far gone in drink. The husband went home at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, and was hrllified at finding his wife on the kitchen floor aou the fire-place, and burnt to death in a most ohxhing manner. Her body presented a fearful epedacle, the lower portion ...

Published: Monday 03 January 1870
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9520 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

TOWN COUNCIL

... dwellings. One was a blacksmith's shop, another a greengrocer's shop, another a coal cefllsi and the remaining four were used as kitchens. Un nden these circumstances and having the discretion which the law gave teem, why should they close them? If ?? Hall had ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1870
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7969 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BLACKBURN AND EAST LANCASHIRE

... mother-in-law, in Witton, went home about ten o'clock in a state of inebria- tion, and lay down in front of the fire in the kitchen. lie remained there for some time, and after muttering some incoherent expressions, he proceeded upstairs with the in- tention ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR TOWN COUNCIL OR, PORTRAITUS OF LOCAL LEGISLATORS

... abolition of the washhouses, and the substitution of a swimming bath in their place. His services in the establishment of a soup kitchen for the poor, and the starved, anti the wrethed, a few weeks back, are also wortry of honourable mention. In religion, Mr ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2080 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE ABDUCTION OF COLONEL HICKIE'S CHILD

... where the woman Elizabeth Richardson lived with a man named fluggett, Who caused an explosion by throwing gunpowder into the kitchen fire in a fit of jealousy on the morning of the 22nd December. Huggett's own life was sacrificed, and as verdict returned ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1870
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1311 | Page: 3 | Tags: News