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A VIVID reminder of the second World War is being acted out at Derby Playhouse Studio by the resident company

... A VIVID reminder of the second World War is being acted out at Derby Playhouse Studio by the resident company. The audience enters the darkened auditorium seemingly a blackout and the action begins with an effective air-raid, sounds being so realistic ...

Published: Thursday 30 April 1987
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

A FORMER Belper man, who distinguished himself by flying 102 operations during the Second World War, has died ..

... A FORMER Belper man, who distinguished himself by flying 102 operations during the Second World War, has died aged sixty nine. Leslie James Holland, who came originally from Bargate, volunteered for the RAF at the outbreak of war and was calied up in ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1987
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE SESSION

... THE SESSION WARSAW — SEPTEMBER 1939: A concert to commemorate the outbreak of the Second World War from Warsaw Opera House. Narrated by Auschwitz survivor Samuel Pisar, with documentary inserts about the Polish war experience. CRICKET. GRAND PIANO. ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 38 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Can you help us?

... YOU help us? asks City of Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Do you know anything about the Rolls-Royce Factory during the Second World War? The Derby Museum and Art Gallery are now preparing an exhibition of the work of the Derby artist Ernest Townsend (1885-1944) ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ohdlyv. The resultin

... by Queen Mary as a present for Ed ward VIII now in the possession of Prince Charles, commissions followed During the Second World War Mr Ber- esford was commis sioned to paint posthumous portraits of RAF V.C.s and he also painted the effects of bomb damage ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

‘CAVALIER SR Talk on pottery

... by Jenifer Giblin with s{ides and examples of the pottery that was made in Langley Mill before, during } and after the Second World War. The meeting will be at the Heanor Miners’ Welfare, Ilkeston Road, on Monday 17 January at 7.30 pm. Non-members welcome ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1994
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Looking for evacuees

... We have recently been reading a book called “Goodnight Mr Tom” and became interested in the plight of evacuees in the second world war. We would love to contact anyone living in the Belper/Allestree area who was evacuatecf during the war, who would talk ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 1993
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

LETTERS to the Editor Caring for those who served

... advice rmvidcd by the British imbless Ex-Service Men's Association (BLESMA). The 50th Anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War reminds us all of the tremendous debt of gratitude that we owe to those who fought in two world wars and subsequent conflicts ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Horsley

... by Ada Otterwell. The squares are to be made into a cot cover. The competition for the next meeting in April will be a second world war souvenir. Dorothy Leake won the ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1993
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

THORNTONS

... Street sight — the well-filled window of Thorntons with its toffees, chocolates and sweets — came to Belper after the second world war. The company was originally founded in Sheffield in 1911, but restrictions on building work in the city after the war ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1986
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

SUFFRAGETTE

... SUFFRAGETTE A former suffragette Miss Sayer remembers serving on the Home Front during the 1914-18 war and in the Second world war she worked in the Ministry of Food, becoming one of the first women to drive a van for a living. Later she became a leading ...

Published: Thursday 24 August 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Can you help? WE need your help. Later in the year, September, we are planning to devote our motoring pages

... we are planning to devote our motoring pages for one week to motoring during the late thirties up the outbreak of the second world war. This year is the fiftieth anniversary and if anyone has any recollections of motoring during this period we would like ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 122 | Page: 27 | Tags: none