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WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE Sir Robert Gxmter, Bart., M.P., preskted over the meetings of the Wetherby Guardians and Rural District Council yesterday. During the past fortnight, was stated, only 53 tramps had been dealt with, compared with 250 in the corresponding weeks ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

TO THE WORKHOUSE

... TO THE WORKHOUSE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WHOSE AGES TOTAL 18J YEARS. It was reported at a meeting of Depwade Guardians, Norfolk, on Monday, that a mother and daughter, aged respectively 103 and 7!), had been admitted to the workhouse. They are Mrs. Sarah ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1919
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AT THE WORKHOUSE

... THE WORKHOUSE. The Leeds Workhouse is not a place intended attract, but at Christmas time some attempt is made to rob life there of its forbidding outlook, and to Sye the inmates share the good times and good for which more fortunate mortals look. Yesterday ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1903
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AT THE WORKHOUSES

... AT THE WORKHOUSES. Christmas Day is the one day of the year looked forward the workhouse inmates, who are then regaled in a manner worthy the festive season. The Beckett-street Workhouse had quite a festive appearance yesterday, having been ?rettily and ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1906
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE At a meeting the members of the North Bier-ley Guardians yesterday, held the Clayton Workhouse, the minutes of the House Committee contained recommendation tbit beer and other intoxicants not supplied the Christmas dinner for the inmates. An ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1903
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE A fracas amongst the old men inmates the Union Workhouse Saturday last resulted in Michael Glackin, aged seventy-four years, being yesterday charged before the magistrates with assaulting another old man named James Swift, who admitted provoking ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1917
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HOLBECK WORKHOUSE

... visited at the workhouse. He gave the master some hints as to the writing of the letter Ramsden sent to the Local Government Board. Mr Thos. Ramsden, the workhouse master, examined by Mr. Ferns said he had been master of the Holbeck Workhouse for five years ...

LOVE IN THE WORKHOUSE

... LOVE IN THE WORKHOUSE. At Tottenham, yesterday, Walter Ingram* aged twenty-one, a pauper inmate of the Edmonton Wori house, was ordered seven days for damaging a window in the workhouse. According to the evidence, Ingram had been put in solitary confinement ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1914
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEWSBURY WORKHOUSE

... DEWSBURY WORKHOUSE scheme for altering and improving the hospital accommodation the Dewsbury Union Workhouse was before the board of management yesterday, after oonsideraoion in committee. Mr. inspector, and Mr. Kitchin, architect, both Local Government ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1903
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TAKEN TO THE WORKHOUSE

... TAKEN TO THE WORKHOUSE. When the coffin was lifted from the grave it was placed on bier on wheels and taken to the workhouse, which is almost opposite the cemetery. A number of people who had gathered in the vicinity during the exhumation followed in ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1923
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE TREATS

... WORKHOUSE TREATS. Of the three Poor Law in Leeds, Holbeck was the only one yesterday carry out that portion of the programme of festivities which it was decided retain. Practically all the bread, cakes, pastry, and other comestibles hewing been prepared ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1902
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 6 | Tags: none