... not feel very pleased with their reception or the food they were handed next morning before they started. So outside the workhouse they formed up in ranks, many of them were old soldiers, and from some scrap heap they had used materials to construct a ...

... merciless sacrifice of our child-life to the mills, the mines and the factories during the Industrial Revolution when the Workhouse and slums were clearing houses from which cartioads of orphans, destitute' and unwanteds were trundled away 'OFFICIALLY ...

... homes with members of the family, but two remained. In those days, if there was nobody to look after you, it would be the workhouse, she commented. ...

... and, says Mr. Arthur Morris, his mother left him with neighbours. He was soon sent to the workhouse at St. Asaph. He picked up some knowledge at the workhouse school and eventually ran away and for a short time was a teacher at a parish school. Later ...

... Chikno. oho %tarns The Rye of realles• late. During the COMM la this true- to•ilie Mors. The It)e befriends Mlle. the workhouse hrat, plaved bv Prlad Townsend (who appeared In Dr. Dho and -Diake's Seven). and with her protector, the Tinanan. Oi - ...

... owing the money, and said that he had contributed when at work. His only alternative was to roam the roads or to go to the workhouse. On many occasions he had not had sufficient food and , often slept in the fields. P.C. Charles Little said that when at ...

... Maeshir flatlets is corn- door key. pletely out of context to Far from wanting to see the real point of their our old folk in workhouse argument, conditions, we of the depu- The point being made tation would echo the was that on the Longford feelings of all ...

... falls to rival the colouring on the Christmas cards. the social evils of his time and helped to ease the treatment of the workhouse inmates. Yet still we have our modern Oliver Twists, appealing for mote food. Think of the living skeletons of Biafra and ...

... proposes to extend these. THREE TYPES Mr. Jones said there are three types of buildings as old people's homes. The large old workhouse where often, despite the forbidding aspect, the attention given is excellent. But these, he said, are inconvenient and expensive ...

... Staffordshire. 11.00 TREASURES IN STORE. Gressenhall Rural Life Museum. Presenter Dick Joice sisits Gressenhall, a 200-) ear-old workhouse now conserted Into a museum and looks at the des elopment of rural life in Norfolk since the Industrial Resolution. 11.30 ...

... was not all music There was plenty of action too and it moved along at a brisk rate Oliver is soon released from the dingy work-house and begins working for the macabre undertaker Mr Sowerberry (Alan Williams) But when his unhappiness persists he runs away ...

... 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 the ...