... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... social services, and to-morrow Aid. Cox is lunching with the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. Women to Work Canal Boats More women volunteers are needed for training to operate canal boats. If found suitable trainees are given control of a pair of boats, consisting ...

... citizenship enjoyed the men, wi.ll become tiling the past.” Women hod claimed canal rights of citizenship with men, and they would lx* very illogical and inconsistent if they accepted old idea of women with regard war. old idea was of high-born lady her -tower ...

... League; George Henry Edwards, under-manager, Kingsbury Collieries, Ltd.; Miss Eily Tolley Gayford, principal trainer of women crews for canal boats. Herbert Glover, honorary secretary, Stratford-on-Avon Savings Committee; Arthur Barker Hatton, technical manager ...

... hero was Sidney Brown, a watchmaker, aged 20. of 3, Mary-road, liandsworth. On I lune he rescued two women from the canal at Withyhed Green. Seeing the women—Mrs. Elizabeth Gillet, aged 09, of 8, Lifford-lane. King's Norton, and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wall, ...

... Butler, who was indirectly iu the employ the colliery company, putting coal into held the other defendants and other women, the canal wharf. He said the elder woman Butlor was continually betting bad example her children. Edith Butlor was sent to gaol ...