SHEFFIELD LINK WITH GIRL RIDER FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

... feat has been accomplished on a motor-cycle. One of them—Miss Florence Blenkiron of Ealing—has been a member of Sir Robert Hadfield's secretarial staff for many years. Miss Blenkiron was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, and is the first woman motorist ...

Published: Monday 03 December 1934
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PLUCKY YORKSHIRE GIRL

... PLUCKY YORKSHIRE GIRL. ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA WITH FRIEND BY MOTOR-CYCLE. BROKEN HILL (N. Rhodesia), Wednesday. Miss Florence Blenkiron and Miss Theresa Wallach, the two British girls who are motor-cycling across Africa from Algiers to Cape Town, arrived ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1935
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RETURNING ALCNE GIRL WHO MOTOR CYCLED TO

... TO CAPE Miss Florence Blenkiron, one of the EnSIXSh girls who motor cycled from Cairo to Cape Town, has left Cape Town alone on the return journ¢y. Her companion, Miss Theresa Wallach, bad already left for. England by ship. ‘ Miss Blenkiron and Miss Wallach ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1935
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

ACROSS AFRICA BY MOTOR CYCLE English Girl Starts Alone on Return Journey

... 18 . —Miss Florence Blenkiron , one of the English girls who motor cycled from Cairo to Capetown , has left here alone on the return journey . ' Her companion , Miss - Theresa Wallaeh , had alreadv left for England by ship . Miss Blenkiron and Miss Wallaeh ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1935
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

MISSING WOMAN

... keeper, while he was fishing. It is possible that post-mortem will be made to-day. Riding her red machine, Venture, Miss Florence Blenkiron, the Brooklands woman motor-evcle racer, arrived at South Africa London, yesterday and completed a 16 months’ journey ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1936
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

MRS. MOLLISOWS CHILL

... young women who, she said, had done a thing she would not contemplate. The two women, Miss Theresa Wallach and Miss Florence Blenkiron, both London members of the Women's Engineering Society, performed Amy's feat—on land—by travelling from the north of ...

Published: Wednesday 27 May 1936
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FEARS FOR GIRL MOTOR CYCLIST

... Has a mistap occurred to Miss Florence Blenkiron, the former Haling motor cyclist, on her lone journey across Africa ? Fears for her safety were expressed by her family during the week-end. Her mother, Mrs. J. Blenkiron, stated that her daughter's last ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1935
Newspaper: West Middlesex Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

WOMAN OF THE WEEK

... for my career said Miss Florence Blenkiron when she outlined her anywhere by taxi enterprise. She has advertised offering to drive people to almost any part of the earth by taxi. She has new ideas about holidays too. Miss Blenkiron believes that people on ...

Published: Friday 22 October 1937
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 125 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TEMPTING PERRY AGAIN P&L O'BRIEN'S £lO,OOO OFFER

... not meet his demand, said O'Brien, who added that the 50,000 dollars was a four months' tour.—Press Association. Miss Florence Blenkiron, one of the two English girls who motor cycled across Africa from Algiers to Capetown, has left alone on a return trek ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1935
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 129 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MR. BALDWIN ADMITS FALLACY OF TARIFFS AND QUOTAS

... Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. FOUR people of either sex are wanted to take part in an adventure which Miss Florence Blenkiron, the Yorkshire girl who recently motor-cycled 27,000 miles across Africa, is now planning. It will be a trip by car ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1936
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 144 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

BRADFORD BRIDE Married To Teacher of Languages

... Bradford. of Mr. Reginald Vernon Dawson. elder son of Mrs. L. Dawson. of Morecambe. and Miss Florence Blenkiron. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Blenkiron. of Undercliffe. Bradford. The bridegroom, an old boy of Bradford Grammar School and an Oxford ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Gold in the London Bullion Market to-day dropped by one penny on yesterday s price to 140/8 i per fine

... Gold in the London Bullion Market to-day dropped by one penny on yesterday s price to 140/8 i per fine ounce. Miss Florence Blenkiron. who is to cross the African Continent on a motorcycle. has set out across the Sahara. A Spanish cavalryman killed. 12 ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1934
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 2 | Tags: none