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... 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 

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 

THE PLIGHT TO WHICH THE WAR HAS ... EDUCED AUSTRIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS: POIGNANT PICTURES TAKEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR ..

... SCHOOL IN VIENNA by the Nuns who are in char e of their education. FOODLESS MEN BEING SUPPLIED WITH SUSTENANCE in one of the workhouses in the Austrian capital. FORAGING FOR FOOD IN VIENNA Searching the rubbish in the market. POOR CHILDREN AND THE PICTURE ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1920
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 310 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTORING AND AVIATION

... new standardised road signals are to be put up at the same time. Really these Ministries will, put us all in Bedlam or the workhouse. They ^re all bent on doing their bit at our expense at the same time and in the most summary fashion, and we will have to ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1921
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 403 | Page: 34 | 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 

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 

HORSES THAT JUST DON'T

... backs the other sort one will, if one has really good information, win a comfortable in- come. If not, there is always the workhouse David James. THE DEATH OP THE POUNDER OF THE ECLIPSE STAKES THE LATE MR. HWFA WILLIAMS. ...

IN THE PETROL WORLD

... world can not do without cars now, and even though panic-stricken rich people shut up their purses for a while, fearing the workhouse, they will soon gain courage again and decide that life is not worth living unless one can get out for a motor trip. HP he ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 678 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE PETROL WORLD

... exception of petrol. The poor old motorist still pays a big price, and his self-sacrifice keeps the oil kings from going to the workhouse. \\J hen the oil magnates issued their piteous appeal some years ago, indicating that if prices were reduced they would tumble ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 643 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Bubble and Squeak: Stories from Everywhere

... him a letter stating their trouble, and informing him that if he did not come to their aid they would have to go into the workhouse. Weeks passed, but eventually there came a letter saying Dear Mither and Faither, Just wait another fort- nicht, an' I'll ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1922
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 669 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Notes from Here and There

... for his wife and five children. The wife is ill, and her illness is aggra vated by the thought she may have to enter the workhouse. 'T'he Royal Coun- ties Agricultural Society entrusted the arrangements for the fire protection o f the show, held at Reigate ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1928
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 635 | Page: 76 | Tags: Photographs