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THANKS ON BEHALF OF PENSIONERS

... thanks to all concerned for the two beautiful homes that have been opened in Neath for the old people. Take a look at the old workhouse and then take a look at the new homes, and the contrast is so great that they stand out as a challenge to the old way of ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1955
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 131 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

M.P.s draw grim picture of life in mental hospitals

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1954
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 403 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WALES DAY BY DAY

... hint the other day) he would perhaps misdate slyly amused by. their en recognition of him. For It was from the one-time workhouse (now the hospital honouring his name) that he ran away when a youth, having been sent there at the age of two when his father ...

Published: Friday 30 January 1959
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 391 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AT ABERAVONS HOTEL EXECUTIVE DINNER DANCE ON THE 27th DECEMBER 1975 7.30 Reception From 8.00 Dinner BILL OF ..

... Cup Bob Cratchers Seafood Salad Camden Town Vegetable Broth Poached Billingsgate Sore Lord Mayor's Roast Beef and Pudding Workhouse Chicken and Mushroom Pie Treadmill Pork Loin Marley's Sauce Fresh Vegetables from Covent Garden Ye Old Tipsy Cake • A Charles ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1975
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 110 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Weekend SUNDAY AFTERNOON: RECREATION STRAIN: But all that pounds Two ways to be fly IF you’re feeling a little more

... exercises depending on your priorities at am one time and it makes me feel and healthy if I use The Workhoust regularly” The Workhouse has proved sucf a popular attraction that 37(X TEST: Andy Widdowson sorts out a fitness programme for a customer aimed at ...

Published: Sunday 06 May 1990
Newspaper: Wales on Sunday
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 650 | Page: 94 | Tags: none

Survey of Neath Abbey

... with Tintern Abbey. In the same number of the magazine, Mr. Lloyd has a short letter about Lletty Nedd, Neath's former workhouse. ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1979
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 129 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Day to remember

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 21 May 1981
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 808 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CM

... CM NEA7'H GENERAL Hospital was built around 1912 ass Public Assistance Institution or, to put it more bluntly, a workhouse. Those were days— as now when poverty was widespread in the world, but worse was to fall upon humanity soon after the institution ...

Published: Friday 20 December 1974
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 119 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RLES DICKENS

... with his wife in Oliver Twist asked for mere In by in the same magazine he a carriage and pair. He often that memorable workhouse sane. managed to take a holiday in rode out of London to Twioken- In 1136 to 1631 Dickens completed Flanders with his wife ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1956
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 126 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Neath YMCA over Lle

... and up to now regarded as a white elephant of the more prosperous present. Lletty Nedd, more often identified as the old Workhouse. or the Union, at Llantwit, is to be taken over as ? a headquarters by the Neath Y.M.C.A. Formerly owned by the, Glamorgan ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1961
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 140 | Page: 1 | Tags: none