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1891 |
Social Conditions Other Charitable Activities As well as the workhouses,
others provided relief for the poor or disadvantaged, as can be seen from these
items from the Montgomeryshire Express & Radnor Times. 13 October 1891
These two items are from January 1891:
"Dr. Barnardo's Homes. Glamorgan Street
Congregational Sunday School, Brecon have contributed £3 to Dr Barnardo's
excellent Homes for Waifs and Strays. What General Booth proposes to do
for the "social failures" of life, Dr Barnardo is aleady doing
for the "waifs and strays". We sincerely hope that the magnificent
scheme of General Booth will in no sense injure or minimise the colossal
work that Dr Barnardo has been carrying on for the last 25 years. In a
letter to ourselves, Dr Barnardo tells us that he has to provide for the
daily wants of 3,783 children, at a daily cost of £150. We wish
Dr Barnardo every success in his immense labour of love, and we should
like to see more subscriptions going up from Breconshire, Radnorshire
and Carmarthenshire to aid the worthy doctor in his practical and successful
way of dealing with outcast children. The Glamorgan-street children have
contributed now for 3 years."
"ST. DAVID'S (BRECON) SOUP KITCHEN To the Editor of the Brecon and Radnor Express. Dear Sir, -- Please allow me to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of the following donations towards our soup kitchen: -- Mr R D Cleasby, High Sheriff, £5; Rev. Preb. Garnons Williams, £1 1s; Mr Albert Kettle, £1 1s; Mrs Rowena Williams 2s. 6d.; Col. Morgan, mayor, Patti-Nicolini Fund, £4; Mrs Davies, New Buck Inn, 5s.; Mr W. Williams, Ferndale, 2s. 6d.; Mr William Powell, haulier, 1s; Mr David Thomas, senior, 1s. 6d.; Mr David Morgan, draper, 2s. 6d.; Colonel T. Conway Lloyd, £2 2s.; Miss Price, 18, Castle street, 10s.; Mr J. Morgan Thomas, 10s.; Mrs Williams, 30, Orchard street, 5s.; Colonel Morgan, mayor (Poor Relief Fund), £4; Mrs. Le Brocq, 2s. yd. I have also to thank Mr. Daniel Wilson for three pecks of peas and a large basket of bread. -- Yours truly, E.
BEATRICE PRICE.
St. David's Vicarage,
Brecon, January 7th, 1891." |
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