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WOMEN CANAL WORKERS

... effort to increase the use of canals for the carriage of goods in the Birmingham area and elsewhere. The principal difficulty had been the shortage of labour for canal wharves and crews, but women had been trained and several women crews were already at work ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 425 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WOMEN CANAL CREWS MAN EXPRESSES”

... WOMEN CANAL CREWS MAN EXPRESSES” NOEL BAKER (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport) told Mr. Thorne (Lab., Plaistow) in the Commons to-day that the through journey between London and Birmingham. is being made by narrow canal boats ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1944
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 80 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIRE-BRICK TRADE CRISIS THE LA8T-F0R-EVEB DAYS Household Gods Surviving WOMEN SMOKERS CANAL DOUBLE TRACEDY ..

... FIRE-BRICK TRADE CRISIS THE LA8T-F0R-EVEB DAYS Household Gods Surviving WOMEN SMOKERS CANAL DOUBLE TRACEDY Result of Secretary MYTH Advanced Wages Claim at Stourbridge Walsall While Bathing RESCUERS COMMENDED SHAKESPEARE & POLITICS ladies’ clubs the idea ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1913
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 557 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CASUALTIES IN THE FOC, Three Women Drowned in Canal. Freesiasily the whole of the Midland. and tie North of England

... Three Women Drowned in Canal. Freesiasily the whole of the Midland. and tie North of England wee Is fad on Friday evening. arid cwlluwn between trams. 'Lunn and ten are reported from all park. A tragedy, resulting in the death of three women, occurred ...

7 MEN AND WOMEN WEEP AT CANAL VICTIM’S FUNERAL EVENING DESPATCH SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 1938 GRAVESIDE CROWD’S ..

... 7 MEN AND WOMEN WEEP AT CANAL VICTIM’S FUNERAL EVENING DESPATCH SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 1938 GRAVESIDE CROWD’S EMOTION POLICE CONTROL IN CEMETERY YOUNG SON UNAWARE TRAGEDY STILL OF and women wept unashamedly to-day at funeral of Mrs Eliza Jane Worton 25-year-old ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1936
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2482 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SAN ON WOMEN SUGGESTED

... SAN ON WOMEN SUGGESTED Ths position is deplorable. It means that as the general education of the country advances the gap between the ordinary child and the canal-boat child is widened. Mr. Simpson suggested that one way of dealing with the problem would ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1936
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOME SERVICE

... Gramophone. 9.0: 15.8.C. Midland Orchestra, with Owen Brannigan (bass). 9.40: ‘'Starlight”' (recording). 9.55: Talk about women canal workers. 10.5: News commentary for schools. 10.15: Time and religious service. 10.30: Debroy Somers Band 11.0: For schools ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 288 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CI OS FOR COAL

... CI OS FOR COAL The eschange of cigarettes. offered bi - two women at the canal aide to bargemen shinning coal. for them to throw coal to them S described when John Wilcox (34) 5. Primrose Avenue. Toll End. Tipton, George Wilcox (17), the same address ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1949
Newspaper: Rugeley Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 92 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HER 115 th ArFIiVIUNCE,

... and Policeoo ns table Bullcn (1 290 officer sh-* was the worse for drink and creating dis urbancc quarrelling with two women in Now Canal Street early this morning. Hot language was disgusting, and they had to carry her the lock-op. Id the Bench that at ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1911
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 111 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THROWN INTO A CANAL

... THROWN INTO A CANAL. WOMEN ACCUSE EACH OTHER OF MURDER The St. Pancras Coroner on Saturday held an inquest in reference to the death of Gertrude Helena Dicks, 18, who on Wednesday night last was drowned in the Regent's Canal. The deceased was in company ...

BATH CANAL RESCUES

... BATH CANAL RESCUES WOMAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER The rescue of two women from a canal lock at Bath on June 12 by two wellknown Rugby footballers, Police Constable Dan Thomas and William Hancock. bad a sequel at the local police court, to-day. when ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1933
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 155 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUDLEY NEWS GRATITUDE

... GRATITUDE. Whorls's, to Dudley Dirl• Rt. Jobs Ambulance brigade, hr a letter tae Prii Netherioa. This member Mw, na Joao, & women in the canal. He leaped in. end bronchi her to the aide in an cooditecia. ile than applied artillcial eaapiration, end nacrerind ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1911
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 4 | Tags: none