What a Dickens of a Time for Our Young and Old ; Time Traveller Take a Trip Down Memory Lane End of the Workhouse and Start of Pensions As Uk Welcomed 1909 Looking Back
South Wales Echo › December 30, 2008
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NEW Year's Eve, 1908, Cardiff... part of a world as different and distant to ours as the world described by Dickens.
And Dickens would have been pleased to see relief approaching at last for those children like his immortal Oliver Twist who suffered in the country's workhouses.See the full content of this document
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What a Dickens of a Time for Our Young and Old ; Time Traveller Take a Trip Down Memory Lane End of the Workhouse and Start of Pensions As Uk Welcomed 1909 Looking Back
MPs would agree in February that such institutions "were not fit places for children".
"I said that in Oliver 70 years ago," his shade must have whispered to those MPs.Good news, too, for the nation's over-70s. On January ...See the full content of this document
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