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    The Cleveland Street Workhouse is a Georgian property in Cleveland Street, Marylebone, built between 1775 and 1778 for the care of the sick and poor of...
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    building of the former Cleveland Street workhouse later Middlesex Hospital annexe and outpatient department on the eastern side of the street at 44 c.1776. Over...
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    In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (Welsh: tloty lit. "poor-house") was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered...
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  • 1889 incident in London Cleveland Street Workhouse, a Georgian property in London Cleveland Avenue (disambiguation) Cleveland (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    building in Cleveland Street, originally a poorhouse for the parish of St Paul's, Covent Garden, and later the Cleveland Street Workhouse. Fitzrovia was...
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    Work by them includes: The extension wings to the Georgian workhouse in Cleveland Street, London in 1873 Cavendish College, Cambridge (now part of Homerton...
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  • Shondor Birns (category Cleveland crime family)
    sentenced them to 60 days in the Warrensville Workhouse. While serving his sentence at the Warrensville Workhouse after being convicted for the bribery charges...
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    abolished as a civil parish in 1922. The parish workhouse in Cleveland Street, Marylebone became the workhouse of the Strand Poor Law Union in 1836. Youngs...
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    Soho (redirect from Broad Street pump)
    including Songs of Innocence and The Book of Thel. The street was the site of the St James Workhouse whose infirmary is believed to be the predecessor to...
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    Marylebone (redirect from Queen Anne Street)
    St John's Wood) and east (running through Regent's Park and along Cleveland Street), the area's boundaries have been inherited as part of the north and...
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    C. E. Ruthenberg (category Politicians from Cleveland)
    Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Charles Emil Ruthenberg was born July 9, 1882, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Wilhelmina (née Lau) and August Charles Ruthenberg....
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  • riots in East St. Louis, a riot breaks out in the quarry of a prison workhouse between the white and black inmates. The violence escalates when Henry...
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  • served time in the Elmira Reformatory, Blackwell's Island, and the City Workhouse. Dinny often boasted that he would never see the inside of a state penitentiary...
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    Tom L. Johnson (category Mayors of Cleveland)
    controlling share in the street railways of Indianapolis. In the 1880s and 90s he expanded his interests to lines in Cleveland, St. Louis, Brooklyn and...
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  • 1540; granted to Sir Thomas Seymour 1547/8; abbot's house used as parish workhouse; demolished 1815 The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Kenelm, Winchcombe...
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    mid-19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses) were a common way to deal with unpaid debt in Western Europe. Destitute...
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    in Easingwold in 1837. The town had a workhouse built in 1756 on Oulston Road. In 1934, Easingwold Union Workhouse was converted into a hospital for the...
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    original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2009-04-18. "Hotel Yields Escapee of Workhouse". The Washington Post. 1964-06-19. Archived from the original on 2007-10-01...
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    Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, "An Act for erecting a Workhouse in the Town and Borough of Plymouth, in the County of Devon; and for setting...
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    to the Allegheny County Workhouse, where he spent the final 10 months of his sentence. He found conditions in the workhouse "a nightmare of cruelty,...
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    nearby workhouse and were buried in unmarked graves. Limerick city: The 'Broken Heart' Famine memorial by Maria Pizzuti, Lower Mallow Street. The sculpture...
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  • live at 6 Cleveland Street; Annie Crook was institutionalised; rumours of the time link Prince Albert Victor to a scandal in Cleveland Street; Gull was...
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    Death of Frank Pojman (category 1930s in Cleveland)
    months in the workhouse and no more than a $200 fine. They received the full sentence. After much deliberation, the city of Cleveland awarded widow Justina...
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    Hyatt, Kim (July 12, 2023). "Ex-Minneapolis police officer sentenced to workhouse for high-speed chase that caused fatal crash". Star Tribune. Retrieved...
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    putting them in the workhouse which meant they were not able to vote. When his son was not elected in 1818 he demolished the workhouse. He was succeeded...
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    (Poor Relief) Act 1747 21 Geo. 2. c. 21 13 May 1748 An Act for erecting Workhouses, for the better employing and maintaining the Poor, within the Borough...
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  • 1966: A judge sentenced an 18-year-old man to sixty days in the city workhouse after convicting him of throwing stones at a police car during the weekend...
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    distraught at the thought of being unemployed and maybe entering the workhouse." She surmised that is likely the reason there is not much information...
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    "home pay", with which they tried to help keep their families out of the workhouse. As well as their mining skills, the Cornish emigrants carried their culture...
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    Barford Street, Rea Street South, Charles Henry Street, Lombard Street, Moseley Street, MacDonald Street, Adelaide Street and Lower Darwin Street, Southside...
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