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... Workhouse? AFTER a recent visit to a former workhouse in Nottinghamshire, I am almost certain we had a workhouse in Bridlington. If you misbehaved in your youngers days, your parents would tell you that you would finish up in number one, Marton Road. ...

... Workhouse I HAVE read in the Free Press that Mr Les Wilcock would like to know if there was once a workhouse in I read in a book (Bulmers History of East Yorkshire) the Union Workhouse was situated on Flamborough Road, erected 1847 at a cost of £5,000 ...

... Brid workhouse WITH reference to Mr Les Wilcock'’s letter (Free Press last week), he is quite correct about there being a workhouse on Marton Road, Bridlington. The building, now used by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, was built in 184748 by Charles ...

... O ASSAULTED the workhouse porter - At the Beverley Police Court on Tuesday, before the Mayor and Mr W H Fisher, a man named Alfred Norman, a tramp, was sent to prison for 14 days for assaulting Geo Faulkner, porter at the Workhouse, where prisoner stayed ...

... History alive in ‘workhouse’ HISTORY came alive in Ripon at the weekend when part of the old Sharow View workhouse, was opened to the public for the first time. Room at the Allhallowgate premises was one of a number of properties in Ripon being specially ...

... The Workhouse Museum of Poor Law THIS is Britain’s first workhouse museum in its authentic location. It is housed in the men’s casual wards of the former Ripon Union workhouse and portrays the treatment of vagrants 100 years ago. Visitors can imagine ...

... x-workhouse set to be home for volunteers K Lynette Barnes, said: “We are all very excited about the scheme. It is a wonderful opportunity and we are looking forward to getting going. “This is a much needed facility and we are greatly encouraged by the ...

... FORMER WORKHOUSE St Mary’s pictured in 1963 borough and nothing has been decided yet.” The Royal Mail is looking for new facilities because it says the existing sorting office at the back of Aberdeen Walk is overcrowded. If a new office was created ...

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... B e e S Can ADIS ¢ Brid workhouse WITH reference to Mr Les Wilcock's letter (Free Press last week), he is quite correct about there being a workhouse on Marton Road, Bridlington. The building, now used by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, was built ...

... Workhouse act - A third year drama student at the College of Ripon and York St John, James Davenport, acts out a scene at the Ripon Workhouse museum. R 2248. Drama students bring city’s workhouse museum ‘to life’ STUDENTS from the Ripon and York College ...