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... lay in a lake of water two miles wide and four feet deep. Gangs of workmen employed by the Grand Union Canal Company were called out to lift the canal's sluices to relieve the terrific pressure on the banks. One man said: I have known nothing like this ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1939
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1736 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Canal May Be Lowered

... Canal May Be Lowered Devon oolice dragged the canal If there is no further clue before Saturday. the water, which is sixteen feet deep at the lhnekilns—the widest part of the canal —will be lowered to half its depth. We think it quite likely that the ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1939
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CANAL DRAINED

... AT, DRAINE officers superintended during the we k-end a search of the Paddington of the Grand Union Canal anil Wharf, for a quantu- Placed there Wy of expksives behered to hare been The Grand Union Cana? authorities dosed the Jo ks at each end of the ...

Published: Friday 14 April 1939
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BOY RESCUED FROM CANAL

... BOY RESCUED FROM CANAL Man Sees Him Struggling In Water Looking over the Grand Union Canal bridge in Western-road, Southall. on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Leonard Burt, of 79, Western-road. Southall, saw a small boy struggling in the water. Running down ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1939
Newspaper: West Middlesex Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WOMEN CONSERVATIVES

... WOMEN CONSERVATIVES. Speaker on India: A World is At tho fortnight), meeting Burnt Oak Women’s Branch of the Conservative Association on Thursday laat, regret was expressed at the news ot an accident to the chairman. Mri. Holland, who wa» stated to in ...

Published: Friday 10 November 1939
Newspaper: Hendon & Finchley Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Women of the Air

... Women of the Air Girl CANAL SCHOOL IS MOVED ON Girl members the Air Guard, stationed at Redhill Aerodrome, look very businesslike in their prim uniforms as they line up for the photographer before taking off. Curing The Jailbird D R W. H. DE B. HUBERT ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1939
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 157 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

ANGRY WOMEN THREATEN COUNCIL

... ANGRY WOMEN THREATEN COUNCIL OVER A.R.P. (Costiamod trm Page Ow) Trinity Methodist Church site had been washed out, and also that considered at the Queen's Park Library. There was not a single first-aid post for the Queen's Park and Harrow Road Wards ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1939
Newspaper: Bayswater Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The WOMEN I MEET: A Month to Month Commentary

... (Left) MISS RACHEL PARSONS MISS DIANA MILLS (Left) LADY STANLEY OF ALDERLEY The Women I Meet (Continued from page 31) that in many ways, in their seclusion, the Arab women know more of peace and happiness than do we in our freedom. She herself went into ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3605 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THE JEW IN THE WORLD, TO-DAY. Dr. E. A. Woolf's Talk to Women Citizens. *The Jew has deserved none of

... Dr. E. A. Woolf's Talk to Women Citizens. *The Jew has deserved none of the strictures and persecutions which he has always suffered and is suffering to-day, said Dr. E. Alec Woolf, of Bromley, speaking to Bromley Women Citizens at the Public Library ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1939
Newspaper: Bromley & West Kent Mercury
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 13 | Tags: none