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Bus to Warsaw

... a coach left Nottingham for Warsaw, Many Poles were in it, some making their first visit to their homeland since the second world war. They will arrive tomorrow afternoon. The bus returns on Saturday. The round trip costs £24, plus the price of meals ...

Published: Monday 06 August 1962
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Fosdyke

... three bridges (as well as pieces of them!) medieval sea banks, 17th century almshouses, 18th century sea bathing and a second World War pillbox. ...

Institute speaker

... entitled On a wing and a Prayer. Mrs Workman was one of the first air hostesses trained by Scottish Airways after the Second World War. She flew in Dakota aeroplancs and also travelled to Belgium and Iceland to assist with the training of air hostesses ...

Published: Thursday 21 January 1993
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Mr J.Abthorpe

... until he moved to Basford three-and-a-half years ago. He served six years in the Army in Germany and France during the Second World War and then worked at the ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1992
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TRAVELLER

... TRAVELLER Mr Williams, who served in India and Singapore in the army during the Second World War, has travelled extensively and has visited such countries as America, llsrael, Switzerland, France, Norway, Austria and Germany. Mr and Mrs Williams and his ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1985
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Harrow

... years, died in London on Sunday. He was educated. at Harrow and Sandhurst and was swarded the Military Cross luring the second World War, 3 His eldest son Richard died in 1970, and heir to the title isy his grandson, Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdon Wrottesley ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1977
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

COMMANDO RON TOLD FIB TO JOIN UP AT 15!

... COMMANDO RON TOLD FIB TO JOIN UP AT 15! Street, Fulwell, and became a radio operator during the second world war. He told the Navy he was 18. By 1940, a year after war broke out, Ron had become a commando and radio operator. He found himself serving on ...

Last flight for bomber

... Last flight for bomber A Second World War Lancaster bomber is due to leave Edmonton, Canada, today on the first leg of a 5539-mile flight to the air museum at Strathallam, Perth, Scotland. It is due to arrive at Glasgow on Tuesday, after a 34- hour flight ...

Published: Friday 16 May 1975
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OPEN UNIVERSITY

... couple who marry for the wrong reasons and are reunited after a long separation in which the ravages of time and the Second World War have taken their toll (1944, b/w) LARAMIE CHAMPIONSHIP BOWLING: First semi - final of the CIS Insurance UK indoor Singles ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1986
Newspaper: Driffield Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

50 YEARS AGO

... at the Scala Cinema in Hucknall. Hucknall's lights are switched back on — after a ltive-year blackout because of the Second World War. And in sport, motorcycle racing takes place on the Nabbs Lane rec, greyhound racing on the Wigwam Lane Playing Fields ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1994
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Mr J.F. Reynolds

... born in Annesley Woodhouse but moved to Hucknall as a baby. He served for six-and-a-half years in the Army during the Second World War in Holland, Belgium, France and Germany, eventually reaching the rank of Sergeant in the Fifth North Staffs Regiment ...

Published: Friday 25 December 1992
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Old soldiers set for parade

... celebratory VE Day Parade. Land army girls, members of the home guard, air raid patrol wardens, or people involved in the Second World War in any other way, are being invited to take part in a service and parade at Lincoln Cathedral on Sunday August 20. The ...