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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 ...
... relief or went into the Workhouse. They could not work; the vast majority of them seemed to grow feeble in the extreme once they were 60. They were proud independent spirits who hated the thought of parish relief and feared the Workhouse more than they feared ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
... YEARS AGO From Western Mail. Sept. 7. 1903. At a meeting of the Cardiff Union Board of Guardians held on Saturday at Cardiff Workhouse. a letter was read from the poor law inspector (Mr. F. T. B. ircha m) with regard to the removal of stop-blocks from the ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... Very good indeed. Therefore. each week I save a few bob towards my old age, so that I will not have to end my days in the workhouse. you will say that I am very wise. You are wrong; because if you do save a few bob. ...
... P.s draw grim picture of life in mental hospitals MENTAL patients crowded in the dismal, forbidding atmosphere of former workhouses and Poor Law institutions now used as mental hospitals was the grim picture drawn by M.P.s in the House of Commons yesterday ...