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THE NEWSLETTER. Week by Week

... WeeK. Week. Great New Street, E.C July 20, 1904. The King spent a good deal of time at New market last week, visiting the workhouse among other places. The Royal Family, as the pictures on another page show, have had an unusually busy week, almost every ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1904
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 989 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

LABOUR LEADERS IN LONDON'S GOVERNMENT

... has not had experience more especially he has distinguished himself in the bypaths of Poor Law work, in looking after the workhouse children, and the inmates of industrial schools and of asylums. Mr. Crooks is popular with all parties. It was Mr. Chaplin ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1024 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

PEOPLE PROMINENT IN THE PUBLIC EYE

... Surrey wicketkeeper, died last week after, years of poverty and bad health in Lambeth Infirmary at the age of seventy. His workhouse end is a curious comment on the extraordinary estimation in which cricketers are held in this country. The Times gave him ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 972 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

AFTER DINNER: The Great Unknown

... BUILT BY TRAMPS. THE MINIATURE CASTLE AT THE MANSFIELD WORKHOUSE. The miniature fort here illustrated was built by tramps under the supervision of Mr. G. J. Hammond, master of Mansfield workhouse and an ex-Army man. A couple of cannon have place in it ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1063 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

THE AFTERMATH of the PORTUGUESE REBELLION: Belgian Admirers of Belgian Art--The Railway Tragedy at Hull

... lost their lives and over fifty were injured. The majority of the victims were schoolboys. The injured were taken to the Workhouse Infirmary near which the disaster took place. One of the most striking events Kingston, Jamaica, has experienced was the ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 374 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

A NEW ENGLISH LABOUR COLONY: The Lot of an Imperial Institution

... formulated. Mr. Fels also started the labour colony at Laindon, where a hundred able-bodied unskilled labourers from Poplar Workhouse are employed on agriculture and the excavation of a reservoir. The land has been let rent free for three years to the Poplar ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1905
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 422 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

PEOPLE PROMINENTLY IN THE PUBLIC EYE

... the. Indian Mutiny veterans has brought to light the fact that Miss Emma Fagg, one of Miss Nightingale's nurses, is in the workhouse at Minster near Margate. She volun teered for the Crimea from a nurses' institution at Queen's Square, Westminster, and reached ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 989 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM ABROAD: Coquelin the Charitable

... live in the Villa Medicis at Rome, more like the guests in one of your great hydros than inmates of a charity. Rien de la workhouse,' he added, for England and English institutions have no secrets for Monsieur Coquelin. And it will interest your readers ...

Published: Wednesday 10 August 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 398 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: WEEK BY WEEK; The Last Pilgrims

... courtesy competition the record should make a film of unique interest. Guardian Angels The poor folks who abide in Barnet workhouse really ought to be grateful to tne kind gentle men who look after them, for they take an interest in their physical and moral ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2237 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

CRACKS OF THE WHIP: Ascot

... by the Illustrations Bureau. WINNER OF THE SECOND PRIZE IN THE CALCUTTA SWEEP MR. A. F. AWBERY, MASTER OF THE WARRINGTON WORKHOUSE, CARRIED SHOULDER-HIGH. The great annual Derby sweep organised by the Calcutta Turf Club was won this year by Dr. Bolton ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Notes from My Weekly Diary: Golf at Sandwich

... and toys provided by the readers of the paper for dis tribution at Christmas among the children in the hospitals, workhouses, workhouse infirmaries, and Poor Law schools of the metropolis. Christmas Parcels The Great Eastern Railway Company has made complete ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1907
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1133 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs