A query passed on from Anthony Chadwick at Ripon Workhouse Museum.
Suggestions welcome!
Thanks
Peter Higginbotham
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> A local lady has done some sterling work on the Ripon workhouse records.
> She cannot find out what the Letters O.W. stand for in columns of items of
outdoor relief. She also finds O.W. Cab but is not happy to guess that this
might be payment for a taxi.
> The dates are first decades of the last century.
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> Have you encountered O.Ws ?
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