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... in Gwent’s workhouses were in the hands of similar benefactors time “Many factors explain continued child suffering” we are told by Mr Hughes Guardians sought mainly to preserve their own reputations and keep down the rates The workhouses they had erected ...
... made boiled by Mr Mrs Wil liams master and matron of the Merthyr workhouse The quantities supplied were 1500 pounds of beef 13 cwt of bread 55 large puddings The officials of the work-house spared no pains to make the Inmates happy For fortnight previously ...
... scheme to be put into operation at Tredegar Workhouse Men whose families were in receipt of relief would in future be employed at the Union labour yard breaking stones and doing masonry around the Workhouse According to one of the deputation they would ...
... (Julian Rogers) asks Mr Bumble (Stephen Powis) for second helpings watched by Mrs Bumble (Lindsay Hall) and some of the workhouse boys Into a coffin goes Oliver (Julian Rogers) helped by Stephen Powis (Mr Bumble) Stephen Wiliams (Mr Sowerberry) Kirsten ...
... Abertillery Blaina Nanty-glo and Ebbw Vale marched to Tredegar workhouse where Guardians held to demand scales of relief The Guardians were besieged by angry marchers hundreds of whom ' occupied workhouse in 'the afternoon and' that ' night prevented the members ...
... at the church on August 10 at 6pm for anyone interested Workhouse furniture gift brings fierce opposition THE chance to acquire some furniture said to have been formerly linked with the Workhouse in Tredegar has been accepted by the borough council The ...
... the latest proposal as a frightening return to the workhouses of the Victorian era “The worst hypocrisy is that John Prescott called a similar proposal by John Redwood in 1996 a ‘return to the workhouse’” she said Mrs Rykala claims the plans to tackle the ...
... battles and marched to the Tredegar Workhouse demanding higher scales of relief for their hungry families Recalling the incident Nye pays a high tribute to James Minton in “Place of Fear” “As the siege of the work-house continued” he wrote “we held innumerable ...
... activists A further 200 yards along Harcourt Terrace is the site of the Old Workhouse which opened in 1820 In 1847 the paupers were taken to Abergavenny before the new Workhouse opened at St James in 1851 Fothergill’s Folly a round house similar to that ...
... the area they were not eligible for a council house f (at was on fourth floor of an old tenement Block which had once a workhouse ' For three weeks Scott lived digs while Paula remained behind in Brynmawr After work every evening Scott would scour the ...
... of the show As Oliver they young Dewi Morris has proved a real discovery for the society Throughout his journey from the workhouse to the den of thieves and finally to a loving home Dewi looked good acted well and sang with just the right blend of sweetness ...
... Bayliss Geraldine House Linda Benger Sally Goulding Sally Taylor Vanessa Edwards Helen Kirkby Lisa Taylor and Roealind Edwards workhouse scene from Glyncoed Junior School's production Lionel Bart's hit musical Oliver Trust thee rtsto give value Tor money - ...