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... Workhouse is white elephant A County Council whits was on - Monday, to MS' workhouse, !lefty A letter from the County Council offering to sell the property to the borough ot Neath, was discussed. Saying be had inspected the site. Mr. Bailey said that ...

Published: Friday 25 April 1958
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 93 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... The Workhouse Graces UNA TROY The little Irish town Ballykeen had an 0:d workhouse: it had one occuliallt —aged 104. But when the place was condemned there followed a drama that shook--and amused -Ballykeen for many weeks. 151 The Patch work Hero MICHAEL ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1959
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 80 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIFTY YEARS AGO

... Bevan 'presiding. for the purpose of considering suggestions for the in^• prtwement of the claseilleation rg. inmates of the workhouse. Bevel . proposals for dividing the roe-. and dormitories so as to divide better elan of inmates from • others, and also ...

Published: Monday 31 July 1950
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIFTY YEARS AGO

... FIFTY YEARS AGO From Western Mail, March 21. 1906 A fire broke out at Carmarthen workhouse. The buildings occupied by inmates and the residence of the master and matron were completely destroyed. the damage being estimated at LlO,OOO. ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1956
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 38 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Reporter li.lllK-HAIRED Ivy Morgan, a mother of four, who re- Asted an attempt to evict her, from her flat in a disuaeci workhouse. moved Into a fourroomed house with all modern conveniences yesterday. And list night, as she sat with her children. Mrs ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1958
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 252 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THEN NOW

... concerned about them: the human tragedy awaiting aged persons in an unenlightened society had not been brought home to me. The Workhouse had not taken my grandparents. The pride which made those aged people shudder at the thought of parish relief has long since ...

Published: Thursday 26 September 1957
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 279 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIFTY YEARS Al

... tram the western Mail. July :01 At extract from Wales Day Day Notes An interesting specimen criminslitY Passed I Cardiff Workhouse on Thurschy was Daniel Neville. who divideli time between the gaol and I rkhouse. During his 63 yea squalid existence he ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1951
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 60 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEATH QUIZ

... Welshman made a tour through Wales to preach the Third Crusade. Who guided them across the Neath river? 3. These Coalworks and Workhouses do employ great numbers of Men. Women and Children, to whom several thousand Pounds are paid every Year, which circulates ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 280 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NIBS COLLIN

... NIBS COLLIN Miss Carr reports. They met a vagrant ‘nd his wire, no doubt making for the casual ward in the nearest workhouse. The woman. seeing them. threw up her hands and then settled them upon her hips in outraged disgust. saying. - Oh. the disgrace ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1955
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 73 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THOUSANDS HELD ILLEGALLY

... case' had exposed the whole wickedness of the transfer of people from, institutions other than criminal—, in her case the workhouse—and' under the pretence that they had been found neglected. ...

Published: Monday 02 July 1956
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 87 | Page: 3 | Tags: none