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Lampreys, as it looked until just after the Second World War. The firm now use the building as offices. WHILE

... Lampreys, as it looked until just after the Second World War. The firm now use the building as offices. WHILE the older family businesses in Banbury continue to thrive, they will perpetuate memories of a type of shopping known to succeeding generations ...

Published: Tuesday 09 December 1975
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 287 | Page: 55 | Tags: none

increased by duplicating the long pipeline across the 40 miles of countryside. Before the Second World War, ..

... increased by duplicating the long pipeline across the 40 miles of countryside. Before the Second World War, Coventry relied on underground water, supplemented by a bulk supply from Birmingham's Whitacre works. When war began, emergency supplies had to ...

Published: Friday 09 August 1968
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 258 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

City at war on video By ROBIN JONES A UNIQUE record of how Birmingham survived the Second World War and

... City at war on video By ROBIN JONES A UNIQUE record of how Birmingham survived the Second World War and helped defeat Hitler is the subject of a new video produced by a Midland company History of Birmingham Part 3- At War is the title of the latest film ...

Published: Monday 27 September 1993
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 986 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

TOLL OF BRITAIN'S ROADS BETWEEN the end of the second World War in August, 1945, and June, 1951, a million

... TOLL OF BRITAIN'S ROADS BETWEEN the end of the second World War in August, 1945, and June, 1951, a million persons were killed or injured on the roads of Great Britain—more than the total of our military and civilian casualties from enemy action during ...

Published: Tuesday 17 July 1951
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 633 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

grenades from the Second World War. is on its way towards a secret spot in the Atlantic to dump its

... grenades from the Second World War. is on its way towards a secret spot in the Atlantic to dump its load into the sea. The grenades. Shed with the deadly gas Tabun. had been sunk in the Baltic at the end of the Second World War to prevent them falling ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1960
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 648 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

• TAMWORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL Leisure Activities Committee AN EXIBMITION OF FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR POSTERS ..

... • TAMWORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL Leisure Activities Committee AN EXIBMITION OF FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR POSTERS 'mill be on show in TAMWORTH CASTLE MUSEUM Saturday, 4th May to Tuesday, 28th May The collection cd polders illustrates the difference in propaganda ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1974
Newspaper: Coleshill Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 62 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

TWENTY-SEVEN years after the end of the Second World War, television is still fighting old battles with all the ..

... TWENTY-SEVEN years after the end of the Second World War, television is still fighting old battles with all the fervour of generals at a reunion. Whether there is still an audience for this sort of thing is open to question. The desert sand and the Russian ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1972
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 148 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A SPITFIRE, one of the most famous of Iritain's Second World War fighter aircraft, at Swinton Airport. Victors ..

... A SPITFIRE, one of the most famous of Iritain's Second World War fighter aircraft, at Swinton Airport. Victors to the second daginton Air Day organised by the Midland RAFA on August 14 will have a chance to see at least one preserved Spit again this ...

Published: Monday 25 July 1977
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 284 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

Marriage and birth rates drop in Canada Canada's birth rate in 1963 was the %west since the Second World War

... Marriage and birth rates drop in Canada Canada's birth rate in 1963 was the %west since the Second World War and the marriage rate was the lowest for levers!! years. The Bureau of Statistics reports that there were 468,000 births during the year. This ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1964
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 106 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

State visits by foreign rulers are becoming a commonplace, particularly since the end of the second World War, ..

... State visits by foreign rulers are becoming a commonplace, particularly since the end of the second World War, but the State visit to Britain of President de Gaulle. which will start to-day, is the most remarkable of the century. He comes to Britain not ...

Published: Tuesday 05 April 1960
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 300 | Page: 20 | Tags: none