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SOUTH WALES ECHO Friday December 22nd 1995 Local News 19 m ODAY A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER JIu Dan O’Neill Everybody

... in the workhouses of his time the sort of places where Oliver asked for more We had one in Cardiff in what we once called the City Lodge later St David’s Hospital But before we start it isn’t Christmas Day in the Workhouse It’s In The Workhouse Christmas ...

Published: Friday 22 December 1995
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1406 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

South Wales Evening Post Wednesday February 21 1990 9 Shops were better then WHAT IS now the Glan-y-Mor home for

... So thus began my six years of life in a workhouse The inmates at the workhouse were of all ages ranging from children in care to Nanny who died there at the age of 103 There was a field attached to the workhouse and it was used to grow potatoes Mr Walters ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1990
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1487 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

South Wales Evening Post Tuesday July 26 1994 THREE It’s a real centre of attraction As holidays approach you'll be

... aerobics and circuit training and the Workhouse Fitness Centre A creche is provided Other health and fitness programmes include Lunch Bunch-includes the use of squash badminton Neptune Health-Suite and the Workhouse Fitness Centre all for the one price ...

Published: Tuesday 26 July 1994
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 946 | Page: 55 | 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

house

... 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

I South Wales Evening Post Monday August 22 1994 THREE In comfortable and relaxed surroundings a fully ..

... aerobics STEP and circuit training and the Workhouse Fitness Centre A creche is provided Other health and fitness programmes include -Lunch Bunch- includes the use of squash badminton Neptune Health Suite and the Workhouse Fitness Centre all for the one price ...

Published: Monday 22 August 1994
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1166 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

Shades of My Old Dutch!

... today will remember the play My Old Dutch where a couple had to be separated after 40 years of marriage to go into the workhouse yet, due to centralisation of hospitals and the increasing cost of fares, many old couples must be in the same position today ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1970
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 55 | Page: 2 | 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

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

REFLECTION ON PEOPLE FIFTY YEARS AGO, how many people would have welcomed an invitation to have breakfast in ..

... REFLECTION ON PEOPLE FIFTY YEARS AGO, how many people would have welcomed an invitation to have breakfast in the Poor Law Workhouse at Lletty Nedd ? Indeed, how many would have gone if they had known they would be dining in the cells of the building? Not ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1962
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 290 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Writer's progress

... level the Christ- mas issue of the l)yffryn Clydach magazine Ymlaen featured two of his articles one on the Llety Nedd Workhouse and one entitled Neath Mysteries. ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1977
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 78 | Page: 8 | Tags: none