When Wayne Ashcroft had the chance to buy and transform a former Victorian workhouse into five luxury homes, he didn’t ...

A Whole Foods spokesperson told USA TODAY on Monday, June 9 that the supermarket chain is working to restock its shelves as fast as possible and said it apologizes for any inconveniences.

Held on the last weekend in July since 2008, Open House Melbourne is one of the Victorian capital’s favourite winter events. It’s that opportunity to have a peek at places that were hitherto ...

Victorian farms, dairies and food manufacturers reliant on expensive, polluting gas will soon be able to go all-electric under a new $15 million program announced by the Victorian Government ...

A Victorian workhouse in Great Ouseburn has been converted into two high-end homes that have just been put on the market. The Grange and the Old Grain House take their names from the property's later ...

Another old East London pub has been reworked into a modern venue serving cocktails and Italian food. The Elephant’s Head, a former Victorian boozer, has been reborn as Elephant Hackney and is ...

Jade Burns & Lauren Hirst - BBC News, Oldham Sun, June 22, 2025, 1:41 AM PDT Mary Higgs went undercover as a vagrant in 1904 to highlight slum-like conditions in workhouses [Carol Talbot] ...

In 1904, a woman left her terraced house in Oldham, disguised in old clothes and pretending to be destitute. She travelled to a common lodging house and what she found there left her horrified. This ...

She would have encountered very stale food, innutritious food. "The bedding could have been full of vermin." After enduring five nights undercover, Mrs Higgs published a report on her findings.

The revival of Victorian workhouse gruel is the first step in the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2009 theme of food, and the meal's reappearance comes a week before a major RSC report "The Vital ...

xix, 370 p. : 23 cm The story of the recently discovered London workhouse that Charles Dickens lived almost next door to in the years before he wrote 'Oliver Twist,' told by the historian who did the ...