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... ++ Workhouse Poet ACORRESPONDENT asks for further information about tirac.e Dickinson. the workhouse poet, to whom reference was made in a note on Saturday. Grace Dickinson was left. a widow at thirty-five. with three children to support She was in delicate ...
... ORIGIN OF WORKHOUSE At Bank Field Museum, on Saturday, Mr. W. J. Lee gave an address to the Halifax Antiquarian Society on local industrial life during the early 18th century, when Halifax was the most important town producing textiles in the West ...
... WORKHOUSE TO CIVIC CHAIR % Mr. Harrison of Bradford TeUs a Story A former workhouse boy—Mr. James Harrison (Lab.) was elected Bradford's 39th Lord Mayor In succession to Alderman Louis Smith (Cons.). Mr. Harrison's election was moved by Alderman M. F ...
... WOULD PREFER PRISON TO WORKHOUSE PALE.' thin and looking ill, •U year-old Wilfred Henry Hnrton of CTvde-terr.. Beanmtdeclared mt dock at Hull Police Court today that he would rather go to prison than the workhouse. He had pleaded guilty to breaking open ...
... WORKHOUSE MEN MAY REGISTER FOR WORK A Leeds poor law official to-day denied that a man who is an inmate of a poor law institution debarred from registering unemployed. It was once, he said, but the rule has been swept away. Men fit for work are urged ...
... HOTELS FOR OLD PEOPLE REPLVE THE WORKHOUSE By Our Parliamentary Correspondent IN an atmosphere of rich, warm sentiment Members of Parliament in the House of Commons last night closed the door of the workhouse. By giving an unopposed Second Reading to ...
... Morning Blaze DAMAGE TO .OLD WORKHOUSE Todmorden Corporation Fire Brigade were engaged for about-three hours grly last Friday morning fin dealing with a blaze at Stansfield View Institution. Scene of the fire was the old workhouse, which is now used as a poultry ...
... CENTURY-OLD SCANDALS REMAIN Plight Of Children In The Workhouse A BUSES, exposed a century ago by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist, are being perpetrated by public authorities' in workhouses and homes Throughout the country. The report of The Care of ...
... PASSING OF WORKHOUSES Guest-houses for our old folk TH/S story should have been written by Charles Dickens. How he would have loved to record the final, happy chapter to the long. tragic history of the workhouses which roused him to such heights of literary ...
... HE NEW YEAR PARTY on Workhouse attained so netn I'here Vv endance nd after usua Reller are killed in an avalanche .\]avho :\s fit:und ?,vhiteve Wagner and 0 AN CHURCH.—Mr.| Jim Austen. of the Royal Canadian w‘{{vEdEkITARI sided at the annual| Police ...
... Fruits of West Riding policy for the aged (Passing Of Workhouses (concluded).] IN 1942 the West Riding made a bold, pioneering move. Aged welfare policy was changed, and it was decided to concentrate on a smallertype home to accommodate between 20 and ...
... FOR AGED |Calder Valley PEOPLE lJottings To Replace “ Workhouse ”’ Institutions MYTHOLMROYD VICAR’S PLEA Homes for aged people to replace present-day institutions with their stigma of ‘the workhouse, were advocated by the Rev. E. E. Price, Vicar of Mytholmroyd ...