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“3 R.A.F. MEN KILLED” REPORT

... r®?ort for pnbiicatioa the U.S.A. TV/O WOMEN FOUND CANAL llochdale police found Sarah Hannah (68), Heneside Crescent, Hazel Grove, and Annie Graham, lately lodging Liiey-street. Rochdale, dead in Rochd ile canal. Ihey were found threeqaarters cf mile ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Canal Dragging

... Canal Dragging Immediately police were informed and a search was carried on. Rex, a police bloodhound, was set to follow the scent To-day Superintendent T. Duxbury told the Manchester Evening News that the dog had tracked the children as far as the sewerage ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 203 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CANAL SHELTERS

... CANAL SHELTERS APPROVED HOME OFFICE officials have approved the Manchester A.R.P. scheme to convert the underground canal arm which runs from Central Station to the River Irwell and Victoria Arches into bomb-proof shelters. The scheme, Sir R. Noton Barclay ...

Published: Friday 23 June 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 346 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Attempt

... Skagen, and will establish a port of control at the entrance to the Kiel Canal, probably at Holtenau, insisting that all Nordic shipping shall call there en route through the canal. This move would, however, be impossible of success without Soviet co-operation ...

Published: Tuesday 24 October 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 307 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Has No S

... used to be done by their menfolk. There are women tram-guards in nearly every town and waitresses instead of waiters in the cafes. Postwomen are employed to collect and deliver the mails, and thousands of women have flocked to do secretarial work. Girls ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 405 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GIRLS 14 TO 16

... ING. OVERALLS & FROCKS. We Pav Rates Higher Than Trade Board. R. H. REYNOLDS BROS.. LTD., 10. CANAL STREET, OFF MINSHULL STREET. MANCHESTER 1. MARRIED WOMEN’S SECTION 40 Machinists for 2 Special Benches, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., for Ladies’ Medium-class Frocks ...

Published: Monday 17 April 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SAYS CORONER

... Correspondent MR. BERNARD JACKSON, railman, of Fonthill Grove, Timperley, was fishing on the canal banks at Brooklands during his holidays. He saw three women beckon some workmen and then one of the workmen put a flooring board into the water. Mr. Jackson ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 610 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

le Search of a Uniform

... Search a Uniform ONE glimpse at the picture of a London River Nurse and I knew which of the women’s war services I should join if the uniform was all that mattered. Nothing designed by Molyneux, Hartnell, or Schiaperelli could be niftier than that navy ...

Published: Tuesday 19 September 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 529 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

... —22, Russell-street, Hulme. Mrs. ERNEST DIXON wishes to Thank all relatives and friends, also colleagues the Manchester Ship Canal clerical staff, the members of the Chorlton Conservative Club for their kindness and sympathy during their sad bereavement ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 197 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Bridge Collapse Cuts Workers Off From Homes

... to-day had already claimed one victim by drowning this afternoon, and were menacing huge areas of the Midlands. The Grand Union Canal has overflowed, and fears are felt that the banks might burst. Men, many of whom have worked all night, are lifting the sluices ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 594 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Hold-up with Air Pistol

... hand, but I have watched them being turned out in thousands, largely by machine and at half the previous cost. Women in this Army, Too Women, too, are playing an. increasing useful part. There are some tasks in which their lighter touch is invaluable and ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1536 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

PILGRIM PAPERS On a World Without Wome

... you thin* , should have been at war no'*' there had been a Mrs. Hitler ■ don’t. . And though many women j, now shouldering men’s buru.j., they’re still women .. . and inexplicable to most men. j I sort of funny and entertaining | watch, and rather engaging ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 612 | Page: 4 | Tags: none