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Queen Victoria Incident

... Queen Victoria Incident. Mr. Bashforth gives a new version of how the naval term “ splicing the mainbrace ” was originated. He claims that his version is the true one. “ Queen Victoria,” he said, was aboard her yacht, the Victoria and Albert ...

Published: Tuesday 19 July 1932
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 429 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

++ Queen Victoria Led

... ++ Queen Victoria Led. ( - VEEN VICTORIA was the fairy godmother who really brought the hundreds of thousands of deft-fingered girl typists into the modern business offices of Britain. Although she never lived to see the amazing outcome of her work and ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1933
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 423 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Queen Victoria The Kaiser

... Queen Victoria The Kaiser. “He IS Vivid glimpses Into the lives of King Edward VII., the Kaiser, the present King and Queen, and Gladstone, Tennyson, and the late Lord Rosebery, are contained in the latest volume of the Letters of Queen ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 879 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIES

... QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIES Death at Rawdon of Old Naval Officer. th has occurred at his home, Scot- James cairn, Rawdon, of Engineer-Captein Captain Black, who was 75. saw service in many parts of the world with Navy. He was one of the engineer officers ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1935
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

QUEEN VICTORIA AS SITTER

... QUEEN VICTORIA AS SITTER. One of the main difficulties confronting Sir John Livery at the outset of the work was to obtain a sitting front Queen Victoria. I knew that failure to do so would flak! it far more difficult to persuade other people to sit ...

Published: Tuesday 31 December 1935
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Memories of Queen Victoria

... Memories Queen Victoria 'I IR—While reading the storj “ Sixty Glorious Years,” I have enjoyed, I 3w many old boys from ane School happen to possess th edal and red song sheet ere given to the children on t* ?casion of the visit of e ictoria to Norfolk ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1939
Newspaper: Sheffield Evening Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

QUEEN VICTORIA AMUSED

... QUEEN VICTORIA AMUSED Din ing . • .f a s' mml*' evi'i lans •. Vlcto* i ant it Qiii* Melbourne repo.il ...

Published: Monday 08 January 1934
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIES

... QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIES. Mrs. Bettis was occasionally as agile ,as a person of half her years. She ,uever misSed reading the newspapers, took a deep interest in topical events, l and generally got up at a.m. A daily walk In the vicinity of her was numbered ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1937
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

VICTORIA. OF QUEEN VICTORIA

... VICTORIA. OF QUEEN VICTORIA. Legislative Assembly in Dublin would never succeed. . . All the loyal Irish would rise against such & thing, and there would be Civil VVar I He answered he might fail, it was forty-nine one that ho would, but ho intended to ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1930
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

QUEEN VICTORIA OF SWEDEN

... QUEEN VICTORIA OF SWEDEN. The Queen of Sweden, who has been critically 111 for some time, died last evening, states an Exchange message from Rome. The King and Princess Ingrid were present the bedside. The Queen recognised all relatives until 4 p.m.. ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1930
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Queen Victoria Memory

... Queen Victoria Memory Mrs. Westcott thinks City Square looks fine for the Coronation, though she still thinks she will never moved she was Roiindhav Park during a Queen Victoria Jubilee celebration. We walked there and back: there wasn't much riding ...

Published: Tuesday 11 May 1937
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

++ Eros and Queen Victoria

... there is much unconscious humour—at least, we hope it is unconscious—in one reasonable solution suggested: 'That the Queen Victoria statue, a vulgar monstrosity', should be removed and the Eros statue erected on Its site. ++ Philately on the Boom. ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1932
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 558 | Page: 4 | Tags: none