... the wsethouse, the opportunity to bosoms a of Parliament and a Privy Counonier. Ferthnatellf, Oliver Twist had entered the workhouse fourteen Tears before the death of the duke and the birth of Will • BETTER LATE Croolui -and now, hi IU2, Clads Daiwa (writing ...

... Charities, after making exhaustive enquiries, could say little more than that a school once existed on the site of the old workhouse, but that the endowments could not be traced. from Monmouthshire Schools and Education by Canon E. T. Davies. W. G. LAWRENCE ...

... recently as 1938. the punishment for absconding was the confiscation of tobacco for one week. Referring to Christmas Day in the workhouse, the entries in the Master's Record say, rather blandly, that the usual liberal fare was provided. The records are vague ...

... loafer and the drunkard and give reasonable out-door refief to honk:at workers instead of throwing them into the dull, dreary workhouse, with no hope but the pauper's ggive. In conclusion. unless they took advantage of the new Act, its passing would have been ...

... late Mr Toni Hathaway, and Alderman Jones recalled the first time Mostyu 'llamas sang a Kilo, wad at a concert given at a workhouse at Tredegar where he was most enthusiastically received by the people who wanted Lino to sing again and again, hut he only ...

... he was earning 101- p•r week taking milk out. He hated that Board of Guardians because they made his ther ere. lofo .he workhouse hr had to go. ions] be often wondered if he %mild become mon and tell a hid he ought to work. Later he became chairman of ...

... will be delighted when you tell them you've wade :be arrangement BOMBS ON GWENT IN COUNTY RECORDS AND CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE IN an annual report Monmouthshire Archives Committee told the County Council that many interesting and valuable records ...

... more dangerous and the criminals more menacing without trying to stop the trend. We can't push the old folk back into the workhouses. Nobody wants to switch the wheels of progress back into reverse. But all these things have to be paid for. The second reason ...

... bitterness in (Aneurin) Bevan's heart than this. No doubt the whole Poor Law system with its elected Boards of Guardians and its workhouse tests, designed to inflict indignity on the individual as a deterrent to ensure that only the neetliest applied, was :haotie ...

... probably bereft of their winner, the prosper; was oleak- -the Institution. That was its polite name. A harsher term the Workhouse. Not only a bleak prospect physically; it also involved the loss of self-respect, which to many was more important. There ...

... only one yet produced to substantiate the oft-repeated parrot cry of 'self-government will drive Wales straight into the workhouse.' However it should not be accepted at it's face value. In the first place quite a lot of the industry diverted into the ...

... sick, and Cwmbran and Tredegar were destitute children were new ventures which had proved to be very successful herded in workhouses. and by the end of the year The trickle of social ser- they would be employing vice legislation became al- nearly 100 in ...