... Paris' (1928), and one full-blown opera, Porgy and Bess, Gershwin's life represented the era of the two decades after the Second World War of parties, jazz, long cigarette holders and general atmosphere of postwar release. His birth is one to be celebrated ...

... the club will see his like again. He started playing for the club as a teenager when the club was reformed after the second world war. His glory years came in 1959 and 1960 when he took 100 wickets in each of those seasons and became the first bowler ...

... been combined with that of the much larger Memorial Centre which adjoins it. This Centre commemorates the fallen of the Second World War but the functions ;t performs are very similar Now this larger organisation seems to want to use the elder memorial simply ...

... empire after being bought out by the larger rival. Munn and Chapman started life as a two-man chauffeur company before the Second World War. Harry Munn had been a chauffeur and he and his partner started to drive their clients about while their cars were being ...

... bridge. The bridge was burnt out and 4 • nikta , • MR Luxton's ship HMS Nelson in 1928. She was in service throughout the Second World War despite being hit by a torpedo and mined. She escorted several of the Malta Convoys under fire from Italian and German ...

... le%el of entries..• The garden dub has been running since it was set up as part of the Dig for Britain campaign in the Second World War in 1940 and has been running the flower show since 1948. Mr Hall added I never cease to he amazed the high standards ...

... The area is known to have been a pottery and brick making centre from medieval times through to the outbreak of the Second World War, as the names Kiln Wood and Kiln Lane in Hedgerley suggest, with experts expecting further finds. Jonathan Parkhouse ...

... rationing. The prefrahricated building was Mr and Mrs Rrant's home on Finch Lane, Amersham, for seven y,:ars after the second world war, from 048 until their son Robert was horn in 1455, when the family ithived to their current home in Pennington Road, ...

... bee-keeping. She was given the bees in 1942 by a neighbour when she was living in Sheffield and teaching at the University. Second World War rationing was at its peak and having honey was an exciting luxury. She said: I remember the hivc I had in Sheffield ...

... Battersea Park who used to give than away during their retarclear -outs. built up a knowledge of gardening but then the Second World War intervened. While a Petty Officer in Combined Ops he learned a lot about roses from Bernie Hendrikson a Dutchman who ...

... pollution. The river flows no more, its water taken for profit miles upstream. Buzzards disappeared before the end of ther second world war and even the occasional kestrel does not hang about for i lbere are still the odd muntjac deer to be seen, but most people ...

... London and schooled at Selhurst Grammar School in Croydon before working in County Hall. Warwick as a secretary during the Second World War. She then became a secretary at the college in 1957 and moved to Albion Road in Chalfont St Giles when the college moved ...