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WORKHOUSE FIRE SCENES

... WORKHOUSE FIRE SCENES BED-RIDDEN INMATES LOWERED FROM WINDOWS . A FOKTION of the workhouse at St Faith ' s , near Norwich , was burned out yesterday morning , and the wliolo building . narrowly escaped destruction . ' The outbreak was first noticed shortly ...

Published: Tuesday 20 June 1922
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A WORKHOUSE ON FIKE

... A WORKHOUSE ON FIKE . LOSS OF SIX LIVES . A NEWOASTtiE-tltfDEB-LYSIE correspondent says that early yesterday morning the Workhouse , Newcastleunder-3-iyme , was discovered to be on fire . There were 22 B inmates . Within an hour of tha outbreak one window ...

Published: Friday 05 December 1890
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHARITY WORK-HOUSE

... CHARITY WORK-HOUSE ; _Abstract of ( he _Receipt and _Expenditure of the Edinburgh Cim . rity _Workhouse , from July t . _'lBIS , _' _toJuly'l . 1 _' 819 , _ by . 'Ocorgc Spankiie , _Treasurer;— • ' ' • ' ' ; _ _ . '' ,, ' . , ,,. ' . ' . ' . ' . ' ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1819
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1023 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

_EDINBURGH _CHARITY _WORKHOUSE

... _EDINBURGH _CHARITY _WORKHOUSE _A BSTRACT of _( he _RECEIPT _and 13 XPEN . _A :. DITURE of _tilt _EDINBURGH _CHARITY _WORKHOUSE , froin July 1 , 1026 , to _July 1 , . _11 _) 27 . By the _lute George Spankle . _Treasurer . ' _IlECHIPT . 1 . _Poors Money ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1827
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 927 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EDINBURGH CHARITY WORKHOUSE

... EDINBURGH CHARITY WORKHOUSE A meeting of _the _Managers of tlio Cliarity Workhouse was held on _Thursday , in _pursuance of a resolution of _^ tlio Ordinary Managcra held on Monday last , to consider what _steps ought to bo _adopted in the present position ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1840
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2516 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIRE AT A WORKHOUSE

... FIRE AT A WORKHOUSE A fibe broke out at the Doneaster Workhouse last evening . The outbreak occurred in the inmates' clothing etorc , and the store , as well as the male casual ward , were burnt down . The damage will run into thousands of pounds . It ...

Published: Friday 18 February 1927
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE WORKHOUSE SYSTEM IN IRELAND

... THE WORKHOUSE SYSTEM IN IRELAND. Mr. Fagan moved for a Select Committee to investigate the present state of the Irish workhouse system, together with the laws relating to medical charities and the relief of the sick poor in the sister kingdom. Mr. H. ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1857
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

UNEMPLOYED RAIL WORKHOUSE

... UNEMPLOYED RAIL WORKHOUSE Following ; a Ihold-up' of members of the . JEelief Committee . at Stafford ; when applications were made for out relief by . men who had relinquished work on a relief drainage scheme through-being dissatisfied with the pay ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1924
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

. WORKHOUSE WIDOWS MITE

... . WORKHOUSE WIDOWS MITE FOB- WOUiMDJii ) SULUUiiKO . The Committee of tho Constance Road Workhouse of the- Carnberwell Guardians havo received a letter in tho following terms from an inmate ; — Dsae Gentlemen . —Will you please 1 accept the widow ' ...

Published: Tuesday 20 June 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HOSPITAL AND WORKHOUSE RELIEF

... to be hoped, the poor are treated with reasonable consi deration in both these classes of institutions and, as regards, workhouses, we judge from a careful report on The Legal Poor, which appeared in the Times at Christmas, that many- alleviations and ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1891
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 312 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Workhouse

... The Workhouse. It will seen, that the subject of a new workhonse was incidentally mentioned the meeting; of the Court Guardians on Tnesday. It must, we are well aware, under the present pressure from high poor-rates, be very unpopular topic: but is one ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1848
Newspaper: Norfolk Chronicle
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 2 | Tags: none