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      Poor

      • UF Low income persons
      • UF Personne à faible revenu
      • UF Personne à revenu modeste
      • UF Persona de bajos ingresos

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      18 Archival description results for Poor

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      York Place Ragged School
      GB 1753 YPS · Fonds · 1867-1871

      Printed annual reports, 1867-1869, 1871, of the York Place Ragged School, Mission, and Boys' Home, comprising first, second, fourth and fifth reports, the first with a loose insert on the new home for boys; view of frontage of premises in Of Alley, c1867.

      York Place Ragged School , London
      Withers, Henrietta
      GB 0102 CIM/PP 93-118 · 1914-1974
      Part of CHINA INLAND MISSION (OVERSEAS MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP)

      Papers, 1914-1974, of Henrietta (Hettie) Withers, comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1936-1974 (mainly 1930s-1950s), including letters to her family, 1937-1941, letters from the China Inland Mission (CIM) London Council, 1947, and two booklets on the Emmanuel Home for the Homeless, Shanghai, 1939, 1945; diaries, 1915-1945 (some gaps), including typescript circular letters, 1927-1932, describing her work, activities and experiences in China, including references to the Sino-Japanese War and World War Two; notes, on talks given [post-1930], meetings addressed in Chefoo (Yantai), 1938-1939, and on Sisiang in Shensi province, undated; photographs and some watercolours, 1914-1965 and undated, the subjects including Chefoo, Miss Withers, other teachers, and children; passport, 1932, with endorsements for escorting children; typescript list of publications about CIM missionaries and readers' comments, 1960s-1970s.

      Withers , Henrietta Ethel Frances , b 1889 , missionary
      LCC/WE/CW · Collection · 1923-1951
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the London County Council Welfare Department, 1923-1951, relating to casual wards in Chelsea, Hackney, Lambeth, Northumberland Avenue, Paddington, Poplar, Southwark, Saint Pancras and Woolwich. Please note some files may be closed for Data Protection purposes.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      SBHSBL · Fonds · 1547-2006

      Comprises: Bequests, Wills and Probate; Church Fabric; Constable and Scavenger; Certificates; Churchwardens; Finance; Images and Press Cuttings; Militia; Parish Appointments; Parish Boundaries; Poor Law; Printed Material; Plans of the Church; Parish Property; Parish Registers; Parish Maintenance; Loose Rate Assessment Papers; Registers of Services and Preachers; Tithes; Vicar and Hospitaller; Vestry.

      St Bartholomew the Less , City of London
      GB 0101 ICS 94 · 1946

      Photocopies of documents concerning the squatter problem at Orlando, [Soweto], 1946 including records of meetings between the Department of Non European Affairs and deputation from Orlando Advisory Board; record of joint meeting of General Purposes, Non European Affairs and Special Housing Committees; minutes of Sub-Committee on squatter movements, and minutes of meeting of Native Advisory Boards with Non European Affairs Committee.

      Johannesburg City Council , Department of Non European Affairs
      GB 0096 AL377 · Fonds · 1816

      Letter from John Richards of the Sun Fire Office to Andrew Beckett, Esq, 17 Dec 1816. 'I return you for your handsome present my sincere thanks & rely on it if it is in my power to do the publication good I will do it ...'.

      Autograph, with signature. Endorsed: 'As to plan for raising Fund for the Poor'.

      Richards , John , fl 1816 , insurance officer for the Sun Fire Office
      GB 1924 RTP · 1901-1910

      Manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell [Robert Noonan], c 1910, with a short history of the original manuscript, and its publication history by Fred Ball

      Tressell , Robert , 1870-1911 , author Ball , Fred C , fl 1946-1973 , author
      GB 0097 COLL MISC 0862 · Collection · 1910-1911

      Papers relating to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, the Minority Report and the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution, including a paper by Sidney Webb "Suggestions and Hypotheses".

      National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution
      METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD
      ACC/2368 · Collection · 1905

      Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

      MAB , Metropolitan Asylums Board x Metropolitan Asylums Board
      Irish Poor Law records
      GB 0097 COLL MISC 0511 · Collection · 1807-1848

      Volumes 1-2. Westport Union, minute book of the Board of Guardians 1840-1846. Volumes 3-4. Castlebar Union, minute book of the Board of Guardians 1845-1847. Volume 5. Poor law account book. (No locality given but note on end paper "Cork") 1814-1823. Volume 6. General account of expenditure at the House of Industry, Cork.

      Castlebar Board of Poor Law Guardians Westport Board of Poor Law Guardians Cork Board of Poor Law Guardians
      GB 0097 HARVEY · [1960]-1996

      Papers of Audrey Harvey, [1960]-1996, mainly comprising drafts of articles, offprints, correspondence and press cuttings relating to social welfare, housing, and homelessness.

      Harvey , Audrey , 1912-1997 , charity worker
      Hale, William: letter (1806)
      GB 0096 AL265 · Fonds · 1806

      Letter from William Hale of 4 Wood Street, Spitalfields, [London] to [Patrick] Colquhoun, 22 Nov 1806. Covering letter enclosing a copy of Hale's open letter to Samuel Whitbread MP on the subject of the poor of Spitalfields. Expresses 'a deep sense of the infinite obligations this parish is under to you'.

      Autograph, with signature.

      Hale , William , fl 1806-1826 , pamphleteer
      GB 0097 COLL MISC 0803 · Collection · 1914-1915

      Minutes and papers of the Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress consequent to the outbreak of the First World War.

      Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress
      Frankland, Richard: letter
      GB 0096 AL373 · Fonds · 1810

      Letter from Richard Frankland, Overseer of the Poor, of Hawes, [North Riding of Yorkshire] to the Overseer of the Poor in Darlington. Stating the cost of maintaining Isabella Scafe for 20 weeks at 3s per week and Elizabeth Harrison for 23 weeks as 1s 6d per week; asking for an extra shilling per weeks for Isabella, who 'still continues very poorly and is confined too [sic] her bed ... she has a very bad cough and is not likely for getting better ... please send the money as soon as possible'.

      Autograph, with signature. A note written in another hand beside the figure of £4 14s 6d reads 'Amt sent p[er] T. Craddock' (18 October 1810).

      Frankland , Richard , fl 1810 , overseer of the poor
      Forest Gate Hospital
      RLHFG · Fonds · 1913-1986

      Administrative records, Chaplaincy records, financial records and patient records.

      Forest Gate Hospital
      BARTLEY, C W (fl 1969-1987)
      GB 0100 TH/PP6 · [1960-1980s]

      Papers of C W Bartley comprising typescript copies of 'Lambeth Poor Law and Workhouse Infirmary, 1552-1878 - a study in the evolution of the National Health Service'; and a different version of the same work 'Lambeth Hospital - from Poor Law Workhouse to Teaching District Health Authority - a study in the evolution of the National Health Service'.

      Bartley , C W , fl 1969-1987 , physician.