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... children were being brought up Victorian philanthropist Benjamin Waugh set up the NSPCC There were already some charitable work-houses but the NSPCC was to be different Waugh wanted the new charity recognise the rights of children as human beings and fellow ...
... interest. As for the L.C.C. votecatching by offering Council houses.—lf they had any to offer there would be no need to re-open workhouses like Newington Lodge. Local authorities are struggling desperately to clear their slums and provide houses for those on ...
... bottommost rung Fortune’s ladder but from one who is on the ground floor There are still further steps downwards TURNED OUT W'orkhouse days With the tray suspended from my neck and a dozen boxes of matches which cost threepence wholesale Sis and I set out ...
... was not all music There was plenty of action too and it moved along at a brisk rate Oliver is soon released from the dingy work-house and begins working for the macabre undertaker Mr Sowerberry (Alan Williams) But when his unhappiness persists he runs away ...
... made boiled by Mr Mrs Wil liams master and matron of the Merthyr workhouse The quantities supplied were 1500 pounds of beef 13 cwt of bread 55 large puddings The officials of the work-house spared no pains to make the Inmates happy For fortnight previously ...
... month has been matched only by the Society's big demand for boys to take part in the show. They were required to play the workhouse boys in the first act and as members of Fagin's gang afterwards. Moreover, two teams were needed, for under the Children ...
... clothes from the inmates of Lletty Nedd Workhouse who had taken over the hospital’s ground floor Her determination to change all that played a major part in the transformation of Penrhiwtyn Hospital from a “workhouse infirmary” as she described it to the ...
... SIR: The workhouse children CARDIFF’S Centre Stage Theatre Company presents Lionel Bart’s Oliver! next week The title role will be played by old hand Richard Hibbert who spent five months in the West End version of Oliver! playing a workhouse child Richard ...
... was not all music There was plenty of action too and it moved along at a brisk rate Oliver is soon released from the dingy work-house and begins working for the macabre undertaker Mr Sowerberry (Alan Williams) But when his unhappiness persists he runs away ...
... film “He had to appear workhouse rags and scrub the floor “It was certainly different and something he will never forget “He really enjoyed himself” Ysgol Y S trade pupil Lewis plays an older Stanley who flees from the work-house for a life at sea His ...
... have had so much so quickly that you do not treasure what has been done for you. You old men have forgotten the fear of the workhouse; you and orphans have forgotten the fear of the relieving officer,• there is no fees now of being bailed by the Parish; you ...
... an invitation to serve a further three years on both bodies. In his work locally he has helped in bringing the Penrhiwtyn Workhouse Infirmary up to the highest standard of hospital service and the largest hospital in South Wales. Alderman Thomas is a member ...