Workhouses – Quotes

I won\\’t claim the

I won’t claim the workhouses didn’t have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared. Edwina Currie

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. Dorothy L. Sayers

Four specters haunt the

Four specters haunt the Poor – Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. David Lloyd George

During my incarceration Mother

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.’You must … Read more

And what an example

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was … Read more

I won\\’t claim the

Lawyers enjoy a little

Four specters haunt the

During my incarceration Mother

And what an example

If they would rather

Please, sir, I want

If I do not