Refine Search

Newspaper

Birmingham Weekly Post

Countries

Place

Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Access Type

74

Type

Public Tags

No tags available
More details

Birmingham Weekly Post

TEWKESBURY ABBEY

... memorial to Major Cortland, killed in the First World War, and his two. sons, who were killed on successive days in the Second World War, one being Major Ronald Cortland, M.P. for King's Norton. *mile Per 6 MAW howls& ~il J. '994 MOcTIY Me Look' ...

Published: Friday 13 April 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 96 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IN OUR LIFETIME

... LIFETIME 11.1114. Royal Oak Tag loss of B.M.S. Royal Oak will be remembered as Britain's first major disaster of the Second World War. Lying at anchor at Scapa Flow. she was sunk by a U-boat in the early morning of October 14, 1939. Of the complement ...

Published: Friday 15 October 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

lamp collectors' come First 1.L.0. TH E International Labour office is one of the few League of Nations' ..

... Labour office is one of the few League of Nations' organisations to have survived the vicissitudes of the thirties and the second World War. Up to now its office in Geneva has been provided with Swiss stamps. overprinted Bureau International du Travail. - ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 106 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Old gateposts

... Cyprian's was consecrated by Dr. Philpott, Bishop of Worcester, as a parish church. Bombs damaged the church during the Second World War, destroying among other features a fine carved reredos. But this little church, off. the beaten track down the road leading ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1959
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WEEK-END TOUR Visit the forest of Robin Hood ALONG drive to Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest is the Automobile ..

... of Ashby-de-la-Zouch was famous. anciently. for its association with Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. and more recently for a Second World War sons of the American forces Br•sdonou-the-Hip has a large quarry and • church dedication to St. Hardulph. murderer of ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1958
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 163 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LINENS - photograph from the air of Coventry taken specially for the “Birmingham Weekly by Aero Ltd In the right

... the new Civic MEMORIAL The above memorial bearing the names former pupils Grammar School who lost their lives in the second World War unveiled on Sunday and dedicated by Canon Cribb AMBULANCE COMPETITION— Dr D J Nicol (In DivLsIon in the Birmingham City ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

him 'Father'

... experiments was the Sherbourne Recreative Centre, which he started as a club for young people in the early years of the second World War. Sherbourne was such a success that a Ministry of Education pamphlet called Youth in a City was based on it, and the ...

Published: Friday 23 October 1959
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 263 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BLUE

... World War is the organ in the assembly hall. The lectern commemorates 34 of later generations who were killed in the Second World War. ._. • • • • .w, , . , ,. The tower of Christ Church, West Bromwich, looks in on the school library with ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1960
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 303 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Cameo:

... came to the sedate English University world. Always they have travelled. They were marooned in Egypt by the tide of the Second World War and escaped by taking in the U.S. en route (her book My Goodness. My Passport! tells of this). From 1941-1945 she tackled ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 264 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Patrick .1. McQuaid

... working in the depths when present -doy devotees of the underwater craze were very small fry. Recalled to the Novy in the second world war, he was an instructor in seamanship at Plymouth, which was for worse than Jutland. In oddition.to his medals, Moc retains ...

Published: Friday 14 March 1958
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 367 | Page: 3 | Tags: none