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WORKHOUSE ROMANCE. LABOUR MASTER'S BREACH OF PROMISE

... WORKHOUSE ROMANCE. LABOUR MASTER'S BREACH OF PROMISE. The sequel to a workhouse courtship came before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell in the London Sheriff's Court yesterday, when Miss Ada Martindale, of Bedniond, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, obtained 525 ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1914
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 471 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NURSING CONFERENCE. WORKHOUSE MORTALITY DUE TO CONSUMrnoic

... Infirm/try, reed • on nursing and training in Poor Law Infirmaries. A paper by Min Wilson, of the Workhouse Nursing dealt with musing in on. separated workhouses, and had reference to the report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws. The paper emphasised ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1910
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OLD AGE PENSIONS, THEIR EFFECT ON INMATES OF WORKHOUSES

... EFFECT ON INMATES OF WORKHOUSES. What the ultimate effect the OKI Age Pensions Act rill be upon Poor Law relief cannot yet be predicted with any exactitude, but that one of its more immediate results will to decrease the numbers workhouse inmates seems highly ...

Published: Monday 28 December 1908
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE RIOT. 86 PAUPERS BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES

... WORKHOUSE RIOT. 86 PAUPERS BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. The disorderly scenes which occurred on Wednesday night at the Belmont Workhouse, near Sutton. Surrey, had a sequel, when 88 inmates, ranging from 22 to 70 years of age, were charged before the bench ...

Published: Friday 16 December 1910
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RIOT AT A WORKHOUSE. DOORS BARRICADED AND OFFICIALS DEFIED

... RIOT AT A WORKHOUSE. DOORS BARRICADED AND OFFICIALS DEFIED. There a riot yesterday at the workhouse at Belmont. Sutton, which is maintained by the Pulliam Guardians. An inmate beeame troublesome with regard to Lis food, and thrt labour master, John Kidd ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1910
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCENE IN A WORKHOUSE. (Woolwich.—Before Mr. Gill.)

... SCENE IN A WORKHOUSE. (Woolwich.—Before Mr. Gill.) Exciting scenes which occurred at the Woolwich Union Workhouse were described when Frederick Wrenn, an inmate of the workhouse. was charged with assaulting Sydney Rowbottom, assistant-master of the workhouse ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1910
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

POOR LMLE PRISONERS. PICTURE OF CHILD LIFE IN WORKHOUSE&

... OF CHILD LIFE IN WORKHOUSE& In a report to the Local Government Board of Ireland on the boarding-out of children system, Mize Fitz Gerald Kenny deplores the fact that them are more than 5000 healthy children inmates of various workhouses in Ireland. Commenting ...

Published: Tuesday 27 September 1910
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE MISTRESS. THE FIRST WOMAN ~ MASTER APPOINTED AT BRAINTREE

... WORKHOUSE MISTRESS. THE FIRST WOMAN ~ MASTER APPOINTED AT BRAINTREE. The profes.sion of workhouse master has been adopted by at least one woman. She is Mrs. Barlow, who has recently been appointed master of the Braintree Workhouse and wields authority ...

Published: Friday 24 July 1914
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CARDS IN WORKHOUSES. THEIR USE TO BE RESTRICTED TO INFIRM MY WARDS

... CARDS IN WORKHOUSES. THEIR USE TO BE RESTRICTED TO INFIRM MY WARDS. The statement that card-playing, which has hitherto been strictly prohibited in the City of London Workhouse, is to be allowed in future is not quite accurate. l'he facts are that ca ...

Published: Tuesday 27 January 1914
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

CLAIM TO ROYAL BLOOD. CUMBERLAND DESCENDANT IN A WORKHOUSE

... CLAIM TO ROYAL BLOOD. CUMBERLAND DESCENDANT IN A WORKHOUSE. Interest has been revived in one of the romances of the Royal Family by the discovery in a London workhouse of a man who claims to be a descendant of George 11. The claimant is a man of about ...

Published: Tuesday 17 March 1914
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 407 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AMONGST THE POOR. FEr.TIVIIY IN WORKHOUSES AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS

... AMONGST THE POOR. FEr.TIVIIY IN WORKHOUSES AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 'Mere are 31 Poor Law Uitiosui in London, and in their workhouses—much more correctly described by the old term poorhouses—there are about persona who tram venous causes have become ...

Published: Tuesday 26 December 1911
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BOXING IN A WORKHOUSE. VETOED BY GUARDIANS BECAUSE IT IS BRUTISH

... BOXING IN A WORKHOUSE. VETOED BY GUARDIANS BECAUSE IT IS BRUTISH. Maiataining that, as a rule, boxing led to fighting, Mr. E. Penne moved at a meeting of the Redruth (Cornwall) Board of Guardians yesterday that the use of boxing-gloves in the work. house ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1913
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 10 | Tags: none