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THE TRUTH DOLL AND TOY SHOW AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

... over 35, OCX) dolls and 25,000 toys contributed by readers of Truth for distribution among the children in the hospitals, workhouses and Poor Law Schools of London. There were dolls of all sorts and sizes, representing every country in the world, and some ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1907
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 146 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE THEATRES: ARMS AND THE MAN; THE GRAPHIC CARTOON

... the Court, Mr. Otho Stuart has staged a curious little two act play which is really nothing more than an amusing satire on workhouse administration, or mal administration. 1 say amusing because, though the first act is a realistic picture of tragic poverty ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1908
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 927 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

HOME NEWS ITEMS IN PICTURES: A Page of Interesting News Pictures from all Over the British Isles

... LANCASHIRE MINERS MARCH TO THE WORKHOUSE A large band of miners, unemployed owing to the coal strike, have just carried out a demonstration by marching in procession from St Helen's, in Lancashire, to the Whiston Workhouse, where they demanded all-round ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 517 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

Plays of the Moment: No. XXXII. Oliver Twist as a Film

... Moment No. XXXII. Oliver Twist as a Film. THE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SCREEN STAR JACKIE COOGAN AS OLIVER TWIST. PICKING OAKUM IN THE WORKHOUSE JACKIE COOGAN AS THE PATHETIC OLIVER. OLIVER RETURNS TO THE HOUSE OF MR. BROWNLOW A STUDY OF THE CHILD ACTOR. J THE PICTURE ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 182 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

TWELVE ZIG-ZAG PAPERS: VI.--The Whirligig of Time

... dying of starvation himself. But it is perhaps in the workhouse, the last refuge of those who have fallen by the way, that the whirligig is responsible for the most dramatic incidents. To the workhouse in Tanner Street, Bermondsey, there came for many years ...

Published: Wednesday 13 July 1904
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1426 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

WHAT PLAYERS ARE THEY? Dramatic Notes of the Week

... fantasy. Pantaloon, at the Savoy Miss Marion Terry and Miss Gladys Cooper In The Dove Uncaged at the Royalty A Tale of the Workhouse at the Savoy Mr. Albert Chevalier, Miss Mabel Garden, and Miss Alice Beet in The House Miss Enid Bell and Miss Florence Harwood ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 203 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM YORKSHIRE, THE BORDERS, NORTHANTS, AND BERKS: HUNTING SNAPS

... Stapleton is Baroness Beaumont's younger sister. The Earl of Essex is the Master of the Craven, which met recently at Kingsclere Workhouse. Lady Essex came to the meet on foot, but was well wrapped up in a leather coat, with a fur collar, and wore fur-lined boots ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 234 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

MAKING TOY SOLDIERS FOR A KING; Çrippled Soldiers' Work

... dependent either upon friends or charity. At one time the number of war-worn veterans who were driven to seek shelter in the workhouse or else solicit charity in the streets was a national disgrace, For some years past, however, numerous philanthropic agencies ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 677 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

GRACE,'' BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE

... daughter (since the latter has lost, her chorarter) asks Grace Insole to get the squire's sererc order reversed as it means the workhouse for the old gamekeeper. Grace knowing her own similar though far less excusable fall from virtue tries frantically to help ...

The Great Truth Doll Show: At the Royal Albert Hall

... thirty-three years, and the dolls and toys collected from a thousand quarters are distributed at Christmas among the children in workhouses, schools, infirmaries, and voluntary hospitals in London. By means of this noble charity more than 30,000 poor children ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 266 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs