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THE Battlefield and War Graves Pilgrimage Association have pilgrimages in September and October to the First ..

... THE Battlefield and War Graves Pilgrimage Association have pilgrimages in September and October to the First and Second World War cemeteries of Ypres, the Somme, Arras, Reichswald Forest and Nijmegen. & Personal grave visits can be included on all these ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 1996
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SERGEANTS in the Bilyth Home Guard, pictured early in the Second World War. The photograph belongs to Mr Angus ..

... SERGEANTS in the Bilyth Home Guard, pictured early in the Second World War. The photograph belongs to Mr Angus McPhail, now 81 and living in the Rubisiaw Rest Home. He is second from the left in the back row and at the time was a fitter in the Blyth shipyard ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1992
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 325 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

I RECENTLY heard from a friend in Canada who during the Second World War served with the Royal Navy on

... I RECENTLY heard from a friend in Canada who during the Second World War served with the Royal Navy on board HMS Seraph (submarine) and he asked me if I could try to find the whereabouts of two people who ran a lodging home in a street near the Waterloo ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1994
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MINULESS vandsais have attacked the resting place of a Second World War pilot. ‘SglGecrge Brown, who was killed ..

... MINULESS vandsais have attacked the resting place of a Second World War pilot. ‘SglGecrge Brown, who was killed in 1 aged StJohn’s Camelery. .:rm“mmmm b mhM&‘uhmm .mfiw’bmmh%m erected s biack marble memorial stone on m‘. Wmuunummomm ‘ln.‘:o-om. M u.. ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 1995
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SECOND world war veterans, worried that a war memorial could be uprooted for a new look market place at Blyth,

... SECOND world war veterans, worried that a war memorial could be uprooted for a new look market place at Blyth, have been assured that they will be tully consulted. Proposals for a revamped market square had included moving an anchor from the submarine ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1994
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

Bomb found

... Bomb found A SECOND World War 600 lbs bomb, found on Druridge Bay, was defused by’ a naval team from Rosyth. ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1989
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 21 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

WWII bomb found at popular beauty spot VISITORS to a popular beampm have been strolling just yards from a lethal

... popular beauty spot VISITORS to a popular beampm have been strolling just yards from a lethal bomb dropped during the Second World War. The potential killer was discovered in sand dunes near Gloucester Lodge Farm, Seaton Sluice, by a man walking his dog ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 2001
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 162 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A love triangle during the war

... Carol Drinkwater (of All Creatures Great and Small fame) with Dora Briyan. Maggie Johns and llvan Beavis. Set during the Second World War, it tells the tale of a triangle of love between Jack Hardacre, his fiancee, the possessive Janey Jenkins, and the lovely ...

Published: Thursday 02 October 1980
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 185 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

News Post Leader October 31, 2002 Fishermen catch bomb

... News Post Leader October 31, 2002 Fishermen catch bomb A BOMB thought to be from the Second World War was brought ashore by Blyth fishermen after it became snagged in their nets. Blyth Harbour was shutdown for several hours on Sunday after the crew of ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 2002
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

jTO Decoration and long servi

... jTO Decoration and long servi JUST after the second world war, Edward Tallantyre started his own business as a painter and decorator in Bedlington. Now he can look back with satisfaction on the opening of his third store renowned in the North-East and ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1981
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

F — ne 18, 1998 Doing their bit

... 1998 Doing their bit THIS fine body of men is believed to be the Home Guard platoon from Blyth Shipyard taken during the second World War with their Vickers watercooled machine guns. The photograph was sent by Mr Carl Birch of Croft Road, Blyth. ...

Published: Thursday 18 June 1998
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

11.35 HEART OF THE MATTER

... 11.35 HEART OF THE MATTER 12.15 ACCUSED 12.45 FILM: MAX AND HELEN (1990) In Poland at the start of the Second World war, Helen and Max are separated from their families and imprisoned in Labour camps. They are reunited 20 years later but it it is overshadowed ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1996
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 31 | Tags: none