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NEW FOREST FROM SPONGE HILLS From the Cheviot Hills, sixty Empire foresters visiting the woodlands of the ..

... foresters, from the Dominions and Colonies, have come to England to confer on problems arising from the timber demands of the second world war. The land on which the new forest is growing was derelict peat bog, which turned the hills into giant sponges. Even trees ...

Published: Monday 30 June 1947
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 117 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

JUTLAND ENEMIES MEET AT FASLANE: The Iron Duke and the Derfflinger at the Same Clydeside Shipbreakers

... where she is being broken up beside her old enemy, Jellicoe's Iron Duke Faslane is a £5,000,000 port, built during the Second World War for the handling of supplies. It was acquired last year by Metal Industries, Ltd., for their shipbreaking and salvage ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 459 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS TOPICAL NEWS ITEMS: PICKET OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Every night from the year 1780 until

... THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS TOPICAL NEWS ITEMS: PICKET OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Every night from the year 1780 until the Second World War a con. tingent of the Brigade of Guards had stood on guard duty at the Ban£ of England. This familiar peacetime custom ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1945
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 130 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

CHURCH ARMY WORK

... lled man, he was a founder of Church Army work in Canada, where he spent some ten years prior to the outbreak of the second world war. Capt. Casey is already the holder of the 8.E.M., awarded in 1943 for earlier services. He came to Harrow from Kensington ...

Published: Thursday 17 June 1948
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE DEBT OF HONOUR. The alleviation of distress amongst ex-Service men and women, including the disabled and ..

... fell in action, are the foremost of the many responsibilities which the British Legion has undertaken since 1921. The second World War has added materially to this great work. Annual expenditure is rapidly increasing, and an appeal is earnestly made for ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1946
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

GHOSTS IN SATIN DANCE AGAIN

... plumply over the North Gate, moderns of the A'omir Age attending Ball celebrating Brighton's first real holiday since the second World War. entered the Oriental Pavilion with 18-coupon coats flung over their Regency frills. ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1946
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 126 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Flame

... and France had been duped rather than that there had been any betrayal of trust on their part. With the advent of the second World war, and the justification gi OVER 100 YEARS ...

Published: Sunday 12 September 1948
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 156 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

To ►Re Tomo or Tot oesenvca'

... Williams. Every endeavour is being made to communicate with the parents and relatives of those Old Boys who fell in the Second World War • but as some addresses. by reason of removals are not known may we 'again have your help in bringing this service to ...

Published: Thursday 18 November 1948
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 127 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHELSEA CLASSIC

... pm. Sunday p.m to 10 p.m. There are the usual supporting tilms at all performances. Ma fy Coockr's Naw Book. - *• The Second World War, is the title of a hook Mr. Duff Cooper, the Member for St. George s, bringing out. ...

Obituary A PRISONER AT DUNKIRK

... served in the first world war as a captain in the Royal Engineers, and was mentioned in dispatches. At the outbreak of the second world war he threw up an important business appointment, and was acoefted in the R.ASC. under a false aas. Captured in 1940, he ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1948
Newspaper: Streatham News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 440 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The NAVY'S VANISHING VETERANS: The Old Warspite is Dismantled; lmplacable and Founroyant Retire: The Submarine ..

... The Second World War prolonged the ser- virp of manv nf nnr warships, among them the IVarspile, a veritable veteran but, paradoxically enough, at the same time one of the most up-to-date fighting units in the service. Warspite was planned before the ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 825 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

Poisoned air

... alliance of the Western countries does not have Germany alone in mind, but ran equally directed against Allies of the second world war The military treaty the Ave Western States cannot regarded treaty of self-defence. The United States Government expresses ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1948
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 146 | Page: 3 | Tags: none