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YR WWII HARRIS ARALL Can SPOR EDWARDS. Landon Printed In the year 1786

... WIWI' out of the Lead and for lathing I.itharge and Red-Lead for the use of the Mina Adventurers. These Coal-Works and Workhouses do employ great numbers of !Men, Women and Children, to !whom several thoOsand Pounds are paid every Year which circulates ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1934
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 332 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

r, WESLE

... on our expedition into old' Neath as Mr. Wright had known it. He was born, he told me, at the Old Workhouse in Water Street in 1857. It was not a workhouse then, he explained, It was bought by the late Arch-deacon, the Rev. John Griffiths in 1852, when ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1927
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 939 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Budget ran true to form

... Mount would finish up in the workhouse. He may not have meant it as it was quoted, but it seems a damning indictment of our at present from a man who has preached the Gospel, but it is very far from living in the workhouse. Anyway the Chancellor has shown ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1961
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 972 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

(By Owner Jenkins, Nan., Meath.) THRILLS and ROMANCE

... in a cart much like a malefactor taken to the gallows, and in Caety (Coity) churchyard, among the paupers of Pen-y-bont Workhouse lies the once celebrated Job o Fardd Glas ! (From the 'Chester Courant, Mr. Mac auley says that 'to die in a hospital and ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1930
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 373 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

What do you know about Christmas

... know about Christmas traditions? 12. Who first said: a. Christmas comes but once a year: b. It is Christmas Day in the workhouse c. 'Twas the night before Christmas. and all through the house. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. 13. Who are ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1974
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 396 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

kith Y.M.C.A. extension a striking comparison between past and present

... present jT is now nearly four years since Neath Y.M.C.A. moved from their former headquarters in Orchard Street to the former workhouse at Lletty Nedd. When they arrived, the building was in a dilapidated state, and it was obvious that a lot of hard work would ...

Published: Friday 17 June 1966
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 969 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Sympathy, but no aid for elderly

... institution. NEATH GENERAL Hospital was built around 1912 as a Public Assisiance institution - or, to put it more bluntly, a workhouse. Those were days as now when poserty was widespread in the world, but worse was to fall upon humanity soon after the institution ...

Published: Friday 20 December 1974
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 513 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ACROSS: Name I. Does he row when he receives a square cut in • shower (34). 4. Water stopper holds

... 20. Torn a rag, but too proud to gel out of it , . IS). • • 1..•••111 osame 22. Check that knot 4 1 23. Could stable In a work-house (6). 40 MINIM • • IMMO I DOWN: I. Stalks up to unsightly lumps (5). 2. Sailor's on one to speak of • dance (10). 3. The ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1979
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 472 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Brookville Drive (formerly Railway Terrace) in Skewen. behind which is his workshop. bears witness to his skill ..

... personal more porridge, while in the impression of the story. background are the boys eat- Another example of his ing at the workhouse table, work is an eagle, which is one of the hardest tasks for the wood carver. Says Mr. Edwards: I read that if you can ...

Published: Friday 23 May 1975
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 599 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PHONE 3213

... undertaker that Oliver. a foundling is sent to work for when he dares to ask for more of the gruel fed to the boys at the workhouse, the only home hehas known. Oliver, played by Mark Lester, who has won the heart of everyone who has seen the film, runs ...

Published: Thursday 18 December 1969
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 555 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

* r * ONAPTIR SIX

... them I ascertained that the Blake woman got him from the local work-house--St. Swithin's. I interviewed the head of the work-house, who looked up his records and discovered that a boy named Jonathan Greenhill had been given to one Amanda Blake. of the ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1937
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 455 | Page: 3 | Tags: none