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THE WORKHOUSE

... however, I have little doubt in my mind that you recoil with horror at the sound of anything in the vicinity of a workhouse. The workhouse! What is it? A place where everything reminds you that you an in the way; where everything breathes indifference ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1204 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SUBSIDIARY WORKHOUSE

... SUBSIDIARY WORKHOUSE. Mr. A. 1. Probya called attention to a i minute in the report of the Maintenance Committee dealing with the transfer a mates from the sub-workhowie to the school at Aberdare. He said that 45 .men were proposed to be sent over. and ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 740 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MERTHYR GUARDIANS. THE 1117DITORII SW FORGIVEN. The monthly meeting of Merthyr Board of Guardians was held on ..

... considered the question of the subsidiary workhouse, Aberdare, and the transference of some of the men from the Workhouse . to that in- Ititution. Statistics were presented showing that the number of men at the Workhouse, exclusive of those in the Inirmary ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 770 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Castlmo/ freas Neat Oslama

... separation that Mr. John Prowle and his fellow guardians are working at present. You know now what wort of a place the Merthyr Workhouse ik Are you aware that the Red Cries Ihnpilnl at Trecynon is • paradise as Isimpnreil with it? Read. however. the report in ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 138 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

REMINISCENCES OF OLD MERTHYR THE woommeu:-

... left. high on the south side to make a road between it and the tramroad alongside the latter for the purpose of building • workhouse. Mr. W .Morgan oilers either Burnell's gold or the brewery field at per yard; and Mr. Edwards will lei on lease for years ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 544 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

DESERVING POOR

... immediately opened and a eta! appointed. A suggestion was made, having regard to the number of men then in the workhouse at Merthyr. that the workhouse should be shut dawn, tope so far as the inirmary was concerned. lie (the clerk) suggested that having marl ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1874 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HIGH STREET. a- MERTHYR

... ed.: eggs. £1 tie. 44.: potatoes, t 3 cabbage►, 10s.: poultry, Y 7 17s. fld.; pigs, £7 to. led.: pigs to Workhouse, 9s. 2i1.: baron to workhouse. £'27 Ile. 5d.: total, £lOB 17e. 111(1. The committee recommended that the selling price of eggs be 3d. each ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 229 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

DANG EROUS OBSTRUCTION

... away with a dangerous bottle-neck iu the main roadway ; to utilise the woodwork in the conversion of the buildings at the Workhouse as temporary dwellings; and to store the iron-work for (satire use. ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 57 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

A JOB FOR SOMEBODY

... A JOB FOR SOMEBODY. It was &TANI to consider tho quesUon of appointing a caretaker at the Tuberculosis Workhouse as soon as the taking over from the Ited Cross Hospital was completed. ARREARS OF ARMY CONTRIBUTORS. It was resolved on the recommendation ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 66 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEGLECT OF CHILDREN

... solicitor, (Iterphilly, applied for • warrant, and said that the hum was • most serious one, as two of the children were a► the Workhouse in • most serious state.—A warrant wee granted. ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 64 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

CAUGH T

... month,. for smashing the mom's ohopwindow., J. H. Lowther complained at Weymouth thut he mold not had wort aad had to We the workhouse. ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1919
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 69 | Page: 8 | Tags: none