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THE LOST SHEEP OF BAYSWATER: The Elderly Ladies who Throng the Boarding-houses of this Otherwise Attractive Region

... not a private house. Excepting its material appointments, it is like that other nothing where other lost sheep gather the workhouse. The atmosphere is the same and it is, I think, this lingering-on of the old and lonely that makes the air of the residential ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

A MILLION GUINEAS FOR WESLEYAN METHODISM

... then other Nonconformists. It is hoped that it will be sufficient to prevent any Nonconformist child from ever going into a workhouse. Part of the money will be set apart for the children of soldiers and sailors who die for their country in battle. It only ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1119 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: Week by Week

... Queen kept her birthday at Sandringham Lord and Lady Curzon arrived from India Princess Henry of Battenberg opened a new workhouse at Wormwood Scrubbs Mr. F. W. Dyson is the new Astronomer Royal for Scotland Lord Roberts resigned his position on the Imperial ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1905
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1029 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS: OLF AND THE LITTLE MAID AND CURTAIN-RAISERS

... recently de lightful as Prunella, and now excellent in a nicely restrained perform ance as the little maid, as the poor workhouse girl who had never received a present, and longed for a gold watch and a hat with flowers and a feather. Miss Mona Harrison ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1088 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Place aux Dames

... instance, they teach in Sunday schools, help at girls' clubs, belong to the Girl's Friendly Society, visit hospitals and workhouses, organise concerts and dramatic per formances for charity, and generally, as they express it, Lend a hand. The best part ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1904
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1097 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

WHEN THEIR MAJESTIES GO A-DRIVING: Scenes in their Pleasant Family Life

... humanity at large during the coronation celebrations as his Majesty's provision for the aged and youthful inmates of the London workhouses to witness one of the state processions, or the invitation to the 100,000 schoolchildren to the Fesitval of Empire at the ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1140 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN

... of canned meat imported, or tinned in England, affects many people in this kingdom, from dukes with yachts to paupers in workhouses, and it affects soldiers perhaps most of all. The embalmed beef issued during the Cuban campaign is said to have killed ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1080 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS

... mother. It is almost needless to add that this talented company was very amusing in Lady Gregory's clever little play, The Workhouse Ward. The Russian M-me. Yaworskaia, whose Russian season at H Plis Majesty's has been attracting much atten tion, had already ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1112 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Waistcoats I Have Met: No.1.-- The Martin Harvey

... a total of 2,400 guineas. Too Much even for Poplar. 'This item alone will probably prevent the guardians of the Poplar Workhouse from supplying Martin Harveys to the paupers. I presume that the binding is made of gold braid specially woven for the purpose ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1906
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1052 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

Balaclava Commemoration

... or infirmity, but some are still hale and active. Thank God not so many of them as formerly are heard of as being in the workhouse or in destitution. To Mr. T. H. Roberts and other friends they owe much for this to the War Office nothing. They will have ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1091 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

ROUND THE TOWN: The Smartness of Ballooning

... vast plain covered chiefly by long rows of red houses and little gardt n patches, board schools, and spiral church towers, workhouses and waterworks, cemeteries and people playing cricket. Everybody and everything seem to be outlying and unessential. If ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1058 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs