... right. him. •lentleman (Mr (*hamherlaitsl made to the humanising of th e Pistr Law was the introduclien of ie.:tot in tin• workhouses. awl many pimple were told that they mold not have relief unless they did :he test work. • I Snow eases of colliers who ...

... accordance with the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1934. They were then sold and the proceeds went towards the cost of building the workhouse at Coedygric that was opened in 1838. Panteg parish possesses not only the accounts of the overseers of the poor but also ...

... December 9th. 1938. • Unemployed Marchers: About a hundred unemployed men from Abertillery took part in the march Ito Tredegar Workhouse on Wednesdayj—at leas: there were not more than that number present at the Foundry Bridge when the march commenced about ...

... through their h. art, he had told his nephew when he had incited him to Christmas dinner. The portly gentlemen from the workhouse had been sent on their way with much the same sentiments, and the carol singer mho dared to invade the sanctity of the miser's ...

... Oliver Twist, told in sparkling 'dialogue and memorable aoop by Lionel Bart. Oliver is orphaned at birth and placed in a workhouse where he craves for the Food, glorious food which is lacking. When he asks for more and shocks the Beadle, Mr Bumble and ...

... cillor J. A. Holley, thanked the Committee for their support. He said that during his term of office the last of the old workhouses in Monmouthshire had been closed and the first sheltered workshop for handicapped people opened. Alderman D. W. Bans of ...

... tlu• Poor Law administration. The Fnoe Council stated that thy• stratiou of the Poor f.nw•. Imuli inside and outside tlk• workhouse, was inhuman. and they asked for alleviation. ...

... The reverend gentleman notes for goods in kind, or as an suitably responded. Mr Jenkins is alternative a n 3te for the workhouse the eldest son of Mr and of the (Continued at foot of next col.) POPU LAR SPORTSMAN AND TEACHER Lifelong service in same ...

... ELY door, it was assassina- is to give a holfday the Non of character. properdoor, day. ion Councillor Donaldson deWORKHOUSE STATE NOTIC E OF MOTION mended that the council should scrap all their com- He pointed out that he It was decided, however ...

... and o great occasion for Nantyglo and Blaine, The great fear of old people years ago was to he sent over the bill to the workhouse at Tredegar but now people wars not uprooted from the community in which they had spent their lives I act confident that ...

... remember the Spanish 'better than most people in Ahertillery. I didn't wait for them to to our town. t %vitt them—t o the old workhouse at tacit tem., ablest every week they Wert' l was only an ordinary teenager with nothing of material ' value to give them ...

... 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 ...