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Love match lasts

... met at a tennis tournament art celebrating their Diamond Wedding 60 years after their honeymoon was cut short by the Second World War. lack Tripp, 87, met his beloved Ursula, 85, when he was playing tennis at an exhibition match at Calticon School in ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1999
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 326 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Help the RAF Association

... simple. the welfare need of retired service personnel has never been greater. Those who served in the RAF during the Second World War, numbering over one million. are now in their seventies and eighties and for a variety of reasons now need our help. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1994
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 327 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Last wish granted

... son Nicholas. We shall miss him very much. Lincoln-born Mr Plumb's association with Chalfont St Giles began during the second world war when the insurance firm he worked for, Commercial Union, was evacuated from its London offices to Newland Park. The funeral ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1998
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 314 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Advertiser News & Advertising 01753 888333 WHAT'S on

... Iver Nature Study Centre, Slough Road: Dig for Victory exhibition marking 50th anniversary of VE Day. Life in Britain in Second World War fashions, rationing, lifestyle etc. Activities galore. For full details ring 01895 270730 INFORMATION Thursday: THE Benefits ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1995
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 294 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Council's tribute to former mayor

... his public duties. Conservative Mr Baile was a consultant engineer by trade after he was left disabled following the Second World War, in which he was thrown from a tank in Berlin, smashing his spine. He joined the former Beaconsfield Urban District Council ...

Published: Wednesday 27 October 1999
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
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Irene kept fit to the very end IRENE Tomlinson was a vibrant 71- an ordinary 71-year-old. She had a speeding

... and were hap- ney and served in the Land Army dur- Thomas' Church, Holtspur. py. Everybody agreed it was very ing the Second World War. The pensioner collapsed from a beneficial. She had lived at her home in Holtheart attack on January 13 as she was Hazel ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1994
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 317 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Tears of sadness as WI shuts down

... strength lay in the members' enthusiasm for choir competitions, drama productions, art, sewing and rambling. Throughout the Second World War, the group played its part in the war effort, diligently conserving fuel and utilising home-grown produce for community ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1991
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 360 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHILTERN DISTRICT COUNCIL

... James M. Todd Wilbourne Farmhouse, Chalfont St Giles Gunning for facts I AM interested in anti-aircraft gunsites from the Second World War, and have been doing research work on gunsites in various parts of England and This research has involved fording out ...

Published: Wednesday 08 July 1998
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 362 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

magic spins spell again

... magic spins spell again IT is well-known that Glenn Miller, who was director of his big band during the Second World War, disappeared inexplicably over the Channel in To mark the 50th anniversary of this sad episode, a special Glenn Miller Concert will ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1994
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 368 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

BUSINESS &

... frame new in red pruner Bft ■ 4ft. 2 top openers. 2 bottom openers with fittings £lOO 0753 884250. TIME books on the second World War mint condition. still booed cost 1400, Selling 1150 0.n.0. Gerrard* Cross 889480. DOME COAT navy excellent caeca. tronetze ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1992
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 271 | Page: 54 | Tags: none

Don't forget mother

... region. Just like Valentine's Day, the observance of Mothering Sunday reached a peak in Victorian times. Then in the Second World War American soldiers away from home, used to celebrating their separate festival of Mother's Day, rolled the two days into ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1995
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 374 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

• THE White Hart, looking up Aylesbury End, at the turn of the century

... I believe, has the highest number of company directors living there than anywhere else in the country. Up until the Second World War there were a lot of people in service in the town. It's very much an Upstairs Downstairs kind of thing. We have interviewed ...

Published: Wednesday 13 October 1999
Newspaper: Amersham Advertiser
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 402 | Page: 10 | Tags: none