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Bingham in the News
1800--1900
These are transcribed by courtesy Trish Symonds from N,S,W taken from the News paper of that Parish.
Wednesday, 14 March 1781, Lloyds Evening Post 3703,
On Monday an express arrived at Screveton-hall near Bingham in Nottinghamshire, with the news of the death of Master THOROTON (son of Thomas THOROTON Esq), aged 13 years. His death was occasioned by the following accident. He was in company with another young Gentleman at Portsmouth the Friday preceeding, who presented a pistol to him, not knowing it was loaded, which unexpectedly going off, shot the young Gentleman through the head.
Saturday, 12 December 1789, London Chronicle 5205,
On Wednesday se’nnight, at four in the morning, died, at Bingham in Nottinghamshire, Mr Thomas BAXTER aged 74; and, at one o’clock the same day died, in the same house, Mr Samuel BAXTER, his brother, aged 72.
Monday, 3 April 1826, Bristol Mercury 1847,
BANKRUPTS – J. STAFFORD, Bingham Notts, press and machine-maker. Solicitors: Hill and Brownley, London.
Wednesday, 9 January 1828, Derby Mercury 4983,
On Friday afternoon the 28th ult a lamentable and fatal accident befell Edward BAKER, a groom to John BALGUY Esq, barrister-at-law, of Wyverton Hall near Bingham, Nottinghamshire. Near the Wheat Sheaf Inn the pony on which he rode, being young and spirited, ran away with him. The pony came into violent contact with a cart coming towards him, one of the shafts of which struck poor BAKER into the abdomen so violently as to cause a rupture of the intestines. He was removed to his master’s house where every possible attention was paid to him, but he lingered in excruciating agony until early on Sunday morning when he expired. (Short version of story)
Wednesday, 23 February 1831, Derby Mercury 5146,
DEATHS – On Tuesday the 15th inst, the remains of Rowland Heathcote HACKER Esq, late Lieut-Colonel of the 91st Regiment of Foot, and who died at Chesterfield aged 58, were interred in the family vault at East Bridgford near Bingham Notts.
Monday, 18 March 1833, Morning Chronicle 19830,
We alluded some days ago to the Reports of the Poor Laws Commissioners, as affording matter eminently demanding the attention of Legislature. Mr COWELL gives an account of an instance in which a parish has been rescued from a state of demoralization equal to anything in Cambridgeshire, by the exertions of an individual. It is the parish of Bingham in Nottinghamshire. The Rev Mr LOWE became incumbent of the parish in 1814; he is a Magistrate and resides on his living. In 1817 there were more than 40 inmates in the workhouse, 78 receiving constant weekly pay out of it, and for the twelve weeks ending the 27th June of that year, the roundsmen in the parish books amounted to 103.
“The state of morals (says Mr C) was that which invariable accompanies the manner of administrating the Poor Laws. The labourers were turbulent, idle, dissolute, profuse – scarcely a night passed without mischief, and in the two years preceding 1818 seven men of the parish were transported for felonies. The poor, to use the words of my examinants, Mr LOWE and DEANE, the Overseer, were completely masters.”
Mr LOWE placed a steady, cool-tempered man in the workhouse, who was procured from a distance, and was not known in the parish, as master, refused all relief in kind or money, and sent every applicant and his family at once into the workhouse. The fare was meat three times a week, soup twice, pudding once, milk-porridge five times. The applicant who entered the workhouse on the plea that he was starving for want of work was taken at his word, and was told that the above benefits could only be given by the parish against work, and that a certain routine was established, to which all must conform. The man goes to one side of the house, the wife to the other, and the children to the schoolroom. Separation is steadily enforced. A workhouse uniform is worn. No beer, tobacco or snuff is allowed. No communications with friends out of doors. Breaking stones in the yard by the grate, as large a quantity is required as an able-bodied labourer is enabled to break. No man stood this discipline three weeks. After a struggle, which lasted a few months, the paupers of Bingham gave the matter up.The inmates of the workhouse dropped from 45 to 12, all of them old, idiots or infirm, to whom a Workhouse is really a place of comfort. The number relieved out of the Workhouse dropped from 78 to 27. Wages rose to 12 shillings a week, winter and summer, all the year through – the labourer husbanded his resources, took pride and pleasure in his cottage, and resumed his rank in the state of moral beings.
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