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... 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 ...
... WOMEN WANT CANAL WORK And Why Not ? A. P. Herbert Adventurous women with a desire for an open-air life are now offering themselves for work on barges, and Mr A. P. Herbert. M.P.. who has made a study of canal life, sees no reason why they should not ...
... WOMEN WANT CANAL WORK VIEWS ON FITNESS Adventurous women with a desire for an open-air life are now offering themselves for work on barges. Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., who has made a»stuuy of canal-life, sees no reason why they should not make a success ...
... WOMEN BARGEES FIND CANAL LIFE TOUGH BUT JOLLY By MIA ALLAN | WENT bMtlni yesterday on the Grand Inion Canal in eanal boat manned by women. Eighteen them are now taking valuable cargoes from London to Birmingham and Nottingham their war Job. Ministry ...
... The training of women for canal noats being extended, and applicants are asked write to the Inland waterways Division. Ministry of War transport, w.i. i Mr. Lvttelton. Minister of Production. outlined the Conservative approach to future when addressing ...
... Union Canal Company have their doubts about it. But please don’t use the word bargee,’ ’’ Mr Herbert urged upon a Press Association reporter today. “The correct description is canal-boatmen,’ or, in this case, canal-boatwomen.’ In my opinion women would ...
... WOMEN ASK FOR CANAL WORK AND WHY NOT—ASKS MR A. P. HERBERT Adventurous women with a desire for an open-air life are now offering themselves for work on barges, and Mr A. P. Herbert, M.P., who has made a study of canal-life, sees no reason why they should ...
... DROWNING bodies of two women Recovered from canal During Same Afternoon wo anc * ree o’clock on Tuesday 161 110011 the bodies of two women one seventy-six years and the other sixtyt got years—were recovered from the Roch-0 Canal. At 220 p.m. a joiner ...
... EDINBURGH THEATRES KING'S : Ballets Tooss LYCEUM : Jane Eyre GLASGOW LITTLE SHIP VOLUNTEERS TO BE PAID NEED FOR WOMEN TO MAN CANAL BOATS Agriculture Angling Modern life might well seem too complex a theme to be interpreted through the Medium of ballet ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...