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4,000 books sold WARTIME EASTBOURNE, the book commemmorating the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second ..

... 4,000 books sold WARTIME EASTBOURNE, the book commemmorating the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War has now sold over 4,000 copies since August. The book’s popularity is the atmosphere of those partly due to the detailed wartime ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1989
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 113 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

L\ 4 o

... L\ 4 o MR BRAILSFORD with his Second World War medal. Picture: Tim Dickeson. A 4 ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1987
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 16 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Gala nights

... Gala nights First performance is Roll Out the Barrel on May 25 when the songs and laughter of the Second World War years will be presented by Gordon and Bunny Jay and an all-star cast. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1989
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 35 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Picnic, jesters and clowns, too

... variety show at Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion tomorrow evening (Thursday). We'll Meet Again looks back at the years of the Second World War and celebrates the spirit of comradeship with song, variety turns and sketches. The show starts at 8.00 p.m. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1987
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

SEARCH FOR WAR BOMB HEROES

... destroyed and people were trapped in the cellars. What followed was one of the most courageous and daring rescues of the Second World War. Now military experts are arrying out new research nto the incident and want to rom anvbody in ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1989
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

A LOVE of dancing drew Bert and Vi Smith together. They met at a dance club in London just before

... Smith together. They met at a dance club in London just before the blitz. But their love survived the horrors of the Second World War and has lasted over 50 years. The Polegate couple celebrated their golden wedding on Saturday. Bert was a policeman until ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1987
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Fine art dealer dies at/7h

... his mother, Elizabeth, in 1930 when he was 18- years-old. His business career was brought to a temporary hait by the Second World War, when he spent over four years at sea in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1987
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

War service

... War service During the First World War he served as a Lance Corporal in the Royal Engineers and in the Second World War was evacuated to Chester, where he worked for three years on the construction of Wellington Bombers. On moving back to Eastbourne he ...

Published: Wednesday 21 October 1987
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Aid for POWs

... Aid for POWs SOME of your readers who were prisoners of war of the Japanese in the Far East in the Second World War may not know about a free medical service which could cure them of tropical disease which may still be in their system. 1 would like to ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1989
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

MRS DORIS WHATLEY

... wear trousers, which caused a scandal in those days!’ After the war, Mrs Whatley became a children’s nanny. ” During the Second World War she worked for a company spraying electric light bulbs. ‘Light bulbs in any gbnc place all had to painted black,’ she ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1987
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Search mission

... Search mission | A NORWEGIAN Second World War commando has returned to Britain on a new mission — to track down his old Eastbourne landlady! Olaf Knutsen was billeted in the town along with fellow soldiers of No. 10 International Commando from 19492 He ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1989
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

Toast

... constitution was read and after eotteeunnnhmi Lake gave a lively and amusing on her life as a nurse before and during the Second World War. v Arrangements were made for outings to the baillet and the guild's second meeting will be held on February 17 at 10 ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1994
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: 12 | Tags: none