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A Strange Family

... stirring occasion when the England team was defeated by the local cricket XI.; of mine host who was also keeper of the local workhouse; of the days when vaccinations were carried out in country inns. He tells of some of the whimsical names of the taverns—The ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1950
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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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
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SOUTH WALES ECHO & EXPRESS TUESDAY JANUARY 1950 BIRTHS MARRIAGES DEATHS ROBINSON— 21 at SOUTH WALES ECHO —12 ..

... Doreen father-in-law of John Funeral Thurs day house 12 Noon for Cardiff Cemetery 2 LEWIS On Sunday Jftr 22 at Aberdare Workhouse George Annie Mary’ -st Liandaff North MASSARI Jan 22 51 Hlgh-st Luigi of Rachel dear of Joseph Mary John grandfather Nita ...

Published: Tuesday 24 January 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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WALES Saturday 28 1910 For the BEST FASHIONS FABRICS FURNISHINGS No 7148 Saturday January 1950 Two -PENCE N FU TOWY

... Milford huts her house last July under an order of the court Mrs Dyson said : There is nowhere I can go except Haverfordwest Workhouse” She has a seven-year-old daughter Judge Trevor Morgan KC made order for possession in both cases in seven days ea DO you ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: Herald of Wales
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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Saturday January 28 South Wales Evening Post Sotitfy AND CAMBRIA DAILY LEADER : Castle Bailey Street wansea ..

... the Press had so reflected upon the birth of his son He was dismayed when newspapers asserted that you had been reared in workhouse in North Wales I intend to publish a book to contradict these fallacies giving to the world a correct and just account PS: ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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SOUTH WALES ECHO & EXPRESS MONDAY JANUARY 1950 A STRIKE THE Communist Guerrillas YOU may what a strike the Paris

... regularly baited A Freeman who is need can also according to his legal rights “go to the workhouse and claim half-an-ounce tobacco” But the fourteenth century workhouse now the twentieth National Assistance Institution and whether the rechristening carries ...

Published: Monday 30 January 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 3326 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TWO j1 £S & EXPRESS TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1950 BIRTHS MARRIAGES DEATHS Dl?!1 SOU'IU — MILLIONS and 4d tor additional

... workless hunger marchers ” the maimed and disabled of World War I singing or begging in I gutters the old folk torn apart workhouses after the means official had paid them a visit As the old song says It’s easy toj remember but hard forget” J R EDWARDS ...

Published: Tuesday 07 February 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 3649 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NELSON

... available Jack Farrell and Tom Richards doctor. Skilled hospital service (cousins); W. Grainger and R. replaces the old Workhouse In- Wiltshire. At the house were firmary for th.) old people. Can Mesdumes Mary James idaugh- the old people be certain' ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1950
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1162 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EVENING POST 'February 11 1950 Three-Halfpence Saturday February 11 1950 SIFTA SALT IODIZED At extra Cost No ..

... their wives and 2s a week for each child The greatest fear that the old people had the fear of ending their days in the workhouse and of being buried by parish It had been alleged by the Conservatives that the Labour Government had done too much too ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 4087 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THREE UNDERTAKERS DENY EXPLOITATION SOUTH WALES ECHO & EXPRESS SATURDAY FEBRUARY Tf Say Legion Charge is ..

... them on the floor The blankets on the beds are sodden and little rivulets of rain water creep from under the wooden Only Workhouse What of the occupants Buckingham Palace”? Mrs Reynolds Senghenydd-born is adamant She will not move unless the corporation ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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UH SOUTH WALES ECHO & EXPRESS THURSDAY in every day IS ' LIBERAL ELECTION RALLY PUBLIC MEETING CORY HALL 17th

... a shiver down their backs for they know what they have suffered from the Tories in the past dole poverty and in old age workhouse I do not expect you ever heard the Splott Ward Distress Committee and to tel! it no longer exists But the minute books are ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 3037 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

March 4 1950 Must these homes crack and crumble ? you ever sat in comfort arm-chair looked an lire khe

... Law Amendment Act 1834 which away overseers and appointed Guardians of Poor whose it was to build workhouses appoint relieving officers These workhouses soon became overcrowded because of the high proportion of unemployed and sick in the country and were ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1950
Newspaper: Aberdare Leader
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4628 | Page: 3 | Tags: none