1 What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

2 How very sad to die in a workhouse!

3 He was to die in Redruth workhouse in 1878.

4 The earliest building is a mid-nineteenth-century workhouse and the most fascinating is the rotunda ward block, built in 1885.

5 Oh yeah, that's when it got its own workhouse, too, for the parish destitutes.

6 The Dickensian workhouse mentality still exists, but you don't need to subscribe to it.

7 George Shepherd, aged 24, had been in the workhouse for some months suffering from consumption.

8 The workhouse, erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of ￡2,000, was built to accommodate 170 inmates.

9 In 1879 the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association was founded to train and supply nurses, and she became secretary.

10 She died of typhus fever in the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, 19 February 1868.

11 Reform of workhouse infirmaries was one of her prime concerns.

12 Philanthropic work, like workhouse visiting, inevitably raised the question of women's representation on public bodies at the local level.

13 The workhouse must be presented in the best possible light.

14 Seeing it on the noticeboard at the workhouse made me think ... but I can't be sure any more.

15 Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse. 

16 In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse, but he did not know that.

17 A fairly serious outbreak occurred in 1928 at the workhouse.

18 Some still by that date did not have trained nurses but employed untrained workhouse inmates.

19 And so it went on: poor or nonexistent sanitation, overcrowded dormitories, dull and unappetising food, workhouse conditions.

20 If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan, perhaps he would have cried even more loudly.

21 The inmates of the institution were treated well, whether they ware in the workhouse or in the infirmary.

22 Their clothes were in a worse state than when they had left the workhouse.

23 One of the boys, Reuben N., had scaled a wall and run away from the workhouse.

24 The old man went into one wing of the workhouse and the old girl went to the other.

25 The deceased said he never would go into the workhouse.

26 The committee also agreed to pay the master his expenses in apprehending runaway boys from the workhouse.

27 They returned the next day with the coffin and four men from the workhouse who were to carry it.

28 And that could have happened when we were in the workhouse.

29 That's why they built the cemetery up close to the workhouse, so they could take them over on a barrow.

30 They were dispersed by soldiers but reassembled to attack another workhouse at Bulcamp.

1 What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

31 Many workers, who had earned the princely wage of ￡3-￡4 in jet's heyday, ended in the workhouse.

32 Paupers were often taken back from the workhouse to their own parishes for burial.

33 In addition to his duties as medical officer to the workhouse he was a magistrate and the coroner for the Borough of Bedford.

34 His parents subsequently became master and matron of Poplar union workhouse.

35 The visitors' committee did not always support the workhouse master.

36 The Workhouse Act of 1723 had empowered parishes to apply a workhouse test by denying relief to those who refused to enter.

37 They discussed some workhouse business together, and then Mr Bumble looked hopefully at the teapot.

38 This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents.

39 Mr. Chapman enquired of the Board whether the paupers and children should be allowed to have money in the workhouse.

40 When the staff feel that the workhouse is ready for inspection the visitors arrive.

41 The girl lay stiffly, half sitting on top of her bed,() a gaunt little scarecrow in patched and threadbare workhouse reach-me-downs.

42 In 1903 the Poplar Guardians leased for one year a new workhouse specifically for the use of able-bodied men.

43 One would have thought it was the congregation of a workhouse.

44 There is always the workhouse.

45 The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse.

46 Stella: The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.

47 In the XIX century the event got out of hand more than once and as a result the handout was first moved from the church to the poorhouse and later still to the Old Workhouse.

48 Nothing was done to save these women from the twin evils of begging or the workhouse.

49 Mrs Symmons sent for a hackney coach to remove Eliza and her dead child from her house to the Marylebone Workhouse infirmary.