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FROCKS, FRILLS, AND FURBELOWS: A Visit to the Workhouse

... FROCKS, FRILLS, 1 AND FURBELOWS By MRS. JACK MAY 'g A Visit to the Workhouse I have been in the Workhouse-- a small personal experience that has served to throw up, in quite a fresh light. several interesting Social problems that have long troubled me ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 468 | Page: 52 | Tags: Illustrations 

KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO THE NEWMARKET WORKHOUSE--JOHNNY WATTS, THE POOR STABLE BOY, PLAYING TO HIS MAJESTY

... KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO THE NEWMARKET WORKHOUSE -JOHNNY WATTS, THE POOR STABLE BOY, PLAYING TO HIS MAJESTY King Edward visited the Newmarket Union Workhouse on July 13. The Standard relates the following incident in connection with his Majesty's visit ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1904
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: 3 | Tags: Illustrations 

OLD AGE WITH HONOUR: THE NEW WAY OF DEALING WITH POVERTY

... THE NEW WAY OF DEALING WITH POVERTY. By Percy Alden, M.P. The sight of the aged recipients of Poor-Law relief leaving the workhouse to reassume the status of citizenship, which has been forfeited owing to poverty, brings to my mind scenes I witnessed in ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1057 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR LADIES' PAGES

... whelmingly to be desired. Though no official valuation of London workhouse sites exists, strange to say, beyond a record of what the land first cost, the sites of our thirty-one Metropolitan workhouses are worth in the open market three millions sterling, un ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1219 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

INSPECTING THE TOYS IN THE TRUTH DOLL SHOW AT THE ALBERT HALL

... by the efforts of the editor I of Truth, for distribution at this season of the year among the children in the hospitals, workhouses and infirmaries in and around London, has been on view at the ltoyal Albert Hall. Visitors trooped in to see the show, and ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 89 | Page: 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

IN THE EVENING OF THEIR DAYS

... DRA^I CRAIG A familiar and touching sight to passers-by in the King's Ruad, Clrjlsta, is that of the old inmates of the workhouse who every day take an airing in the old-world garden adjoining the union buildings. The garden was once a graveyard, and ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1907
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 140 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations 

TRUTH'S · DOLL · SHOW

... not comprehensive. It delights to suit all little girls and there were joyous moments for every child in the hospitals, workhouses workouse infirmaries and Poor Law schools of London, when the dolls and other toys of the Truth Show were distributed. There ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1906
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 200 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

Quaker Oats

... Quaker Oats. homes, 75 out of 100 use Oat- Food. _ -p^e iarge; thin flakes that cook and digest so In 50 per cent, of the workhouses investigated there easily. The delicious flavour impossible to any other are not 3 in 100 of the inmates who had the advantage ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 283 | Page: 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SOCIAL JESTER: AFTERNOON TEA--IN BOND STREET

... AFTERNOON TEA-- IN BOND STREET. THE clergyman who, last Christmas, wished to supply the ladies in his Parish Workhouse with tea and the gentlemen with tobacco has won my respect and admiration for all time. I believe, as a matter of fact, he was prevented ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1211 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

HIRAM MAXIM'S

... Throat and Nose affections, asked to be included in the 100, the applicants ranging from a Duke to a poor woman in a London workhouse. An illustrated booklet has just been published giving the full history of these inventions. It also contains some valuable ...

Sir HIRAM MAXIM'S

... Throat and Nose affections, asked to be included in the 100, the applicants ranging from a duke to a poor woman in a London workhouse. An Illustrated Booklet has just been published giving the full history of these inventions. It also contains some valuable ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1910
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 327 | Page: 50 | Tags: Illustrations