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... Accrington Town Council as a Labour representative for Spring Hill Ward in the thirties. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War he was appointed chairman of the Civil Defence Committee. He became secretary of the Workpeople's Hospital Fund in 1941 ...

Published: Tuesday 21 January 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 423 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Ex-England soccer star is now a landlord at Oswaldtwistle

... which he has managed. While playing soccer for Hull City, he was mine host in Stoke-on-Trent. Immediately after the Second World War, Neil became England's centre-half. In 1950, he left this country to play soccer in South America which was then outside ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AT YOUR LOCAL CINEMA CLASSIC

... DEATH US DO PART on the big screen. Highlights of the film, which is showing all week, include scenes of Alf during the Second World War and a sequence which shows him at an impottant football match. The stars, as usual, are Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 125 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SLOW

... national income on research, we have been slow in applying new techniques to industry. Mr Fowler continued, Since the Second World War, we have had to come face to face with reality. We have had to pay our way in the world. It is true that we in the Labou' ...

Published: Tuesday 04 February 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 264 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AT YOUR LOCAL CINEMA

... laugh proving that comedy exists in true to life experiences. Highlights of the film include scenes of Alf during the Second World War and a sequence which shows him at an important football match. Anyone who enjoyed the family's antics on TV will certainly ...

Published: Tuesday 04 February 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 253 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MRS BOWERS

... dancer in pantomime, revue and variety work, 44-year-old Mrs Bowers gave up her career to become a nurse during the Second World War. She took part of Nan in a production of Country Girl put on by Howard and Bullough's some years later, but that is ...

Published: Tuesday 18 February 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Kr ` .>` .a;,t ~~. _ ~ `

... generous donor. Mr Barrow was born in Damen but spent his early life in Blackburn coming to Accrington in 1933. During the Second World War he was with Bristol. Aircraft and a lieutenant In the HoMe Guard• After - the war he started in business on his own account ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 894 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Gains degree

... University College, London. She was also the only British student to study at the Prague School of economics since the second world war. Mrs Lloyd's husband is a methods analyst in London, and his parents now live in retirement in Newton, Mumbles Swansea ...

SERVICE IN TWO WARS

... but, instead of being sent home, with characteristic tenacity he continued active service until the Armistice. In the second world war he was a lieutenant in the Home Guard. One of Coun Barrow's most notable qualities was his desire to ghe service to others ...