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Board of guardians

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Oct 7, 2026

Felicity KendalGUEST
19:10
So where is he?
speaker_9GUEST
19:12
Well, if we go to the minutes of the Board of Guardians.
Felicity KendalGUEST
19:18
Medical officer's report, recommendation, Albert Edward Liddell, aged four, be under the control of the guardians until he attain the age of 18 years.
speaker_9GUEST
19:28
He's taken into the control of the guardians.
Felicity KendalGUEST
19:31
This, this, this is too, this is too much to bear.
speaker_9GUEST
19:35
It's a new practice that has come in.
speaker_9GUEST
19:37
The Board of Guardians is allowed to adopt children that they feel are in danger, children whose parents have died, children whose parents are in prison, or children whose parents are of a low moral standing, and I really think that they would have-
Felicity KendalGUEST
19:50
Yes
Jonathan WilliamsHOST
4:24
First, it grouped thousands of local parishes into larger units called poor law unions, each one covering a market town and the countryside around it.
Jonathan WilliamsHOST
4:35
Second, it put each union in the hands of an elected board of guardians.
Jonathan WilliamsHOST
4:40
Great payers who administered relief and crucially controlled the money.
Jonathan WilliamsHOST
4:45
And third, at the center of each union, it placed a building, the union workhouse.

12 MINS LATER

Jonathan WilliamsHOST
17:18
Interestingly, against the grain of what I just told you about Conarvonshire's reluctance, Buchelli's guardians were unusually keen.
Jonathan WilliamsHOST
17:26
While their neighbors in Banger and Beaumarse and Carnarvon were holding out against building a workhouse for years, Buchelli Board moved quickly.
Jonathan WilliamsHOST
17:38
Within months of forming, they had leave to build a workhouse for 220 inmates, and in December of 1837, they bought a site on the western edge of town, and at Schenglam, for 500 guineas the design chosen by competition came from a local man william thomas of penland street in puzeli and it followed the popular cruciform or square plan with an entrance and administrative block facing the road and wards radiating behind That board of guardians would run the poor law from 1837 until it was finally swept away by the local government reforms of 1929 and 1930.
Jonathan WilliamsHOST
18:23
Now, here's the personal side of this conversation.
Danny HoulihanHOST
20:03
Butter Market every Thursday.
Danny HoulihanHOST
20:07
11 Electoral Divisions Board of Guardians meet every Thursday.
Danny HoulihanHOST
20:12
The Chairman was Sinan Ayers.
Danny HoulihanHOST
20:15
Karo Rae Cranny.

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One-Act Play Collection 016-Various

Sep 27 · 1 Mention

Jim HedrickVOICE_ACTOR
9:45
He possesses the fire of the Gael, the strength of the Norman, the vigor of the Dane, the stolidity of the Saxon.
ToddVOICE_ACTOR
9:54
It was the chairman of the Poor Law Guardians wrote that.
Jim HedrickVOICE_ACTOR
9:57
A magnificent example to old and young.
ToddVOICE_ACTOR
10:00
That was the secretary of the Duet Hurling Club.

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