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Offline nanny jan

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Re: Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 17 February 11 09:11 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: scrimnet on Wednesday 16 February 11 21:17 GMT (UK)
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Re: Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 17 February 11 09:18 GMT (UK) »
Just signed up - there, but for the grace of God, some of my ancestors

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Re: Urgent! pse save Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 17 February 11 14:35 GMT (UK) »
Thank you all...Keep em coming! ;D ;D
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Re: Urgent! pse save Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 17 February 11 18:20 GMT (UK) »
Signed it on Tuesday. Petitions can help, look at the climbdown over the forest sale.
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Re: Urgent! pse save Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 17 February 11 21:46 GMT (UK) »
I've just signed it, too.  It's such a shame to see history being erased like this.
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Re: Urgent! pse save Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 23 February 11 11:17 GMT (UK) »
Has this petition run out of time now?

Just that there seem to be more articles appearing about it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12549330

Thanks to Steve for the link from the Nathanial thread  ;D
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Re: Urgent! pse save Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 23 February 11 14:11 GMT (UK) »

The same fate is likely for Plomesgate Workhouse in Suffolk - featured in this BBC news article:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0bz3/

Such a shame that our Victorian heritage is treated with such disrespect.

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Re: Urgent! pse save Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 23 February 11 15:04 GMT (UK) »
Dear God. Demolition of our heritage is awful. Lets hope that can be saved as well.
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Re: Urgent! pse save Dickens' workhouse...
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 23 February 11 15:41 GMT (UK) »
I suppose it is part of a cunning plan worthy of "Blackadder" The idea to put the idle poor to work in workhouses, first demolish the remaining historic workhouses, then build new ones thus generating a little employment in the building trade for cosmetic purposes, and then house the "able bodied" poor who say they are unable to work having been disqualified from disablement benefits by the newly introduced tests. What a rubbish system!!
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