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Scrap merchants •• of the voluntary type have been busy in Sandiacre during recent weeks. I am told that something

... May I remind readers that three dumps are in operation at Sandiacre : in the Screw Company's Yard, the coal wharf on the canal side at Townstreet, and the sand hole on Stanton-lane. S • • The voluntary service that is being given to-day in a variety ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Stapleford & Sandiacre News
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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LORD MAYOR TO CALL MEETING

... members of a fishing boat who also rescued the other man from the sailing boat. DIVED INTO CANAL P.c. Longland rescued sixyear-old Kenneth Badder, from Beeston Canal near Wilfordstreet locks. Nottingham, where the water is six feet deep. Badder was Ashing ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1945
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 907 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

of Chiefs

... navigation between Bruges, Ghent and the port Antwerp. Men have been working day and night, Sundays included, repair the canals. Some 750 bridges were destroyed during the fighting last May and hundreds of ships were sunk in the waterways and ports. ...

Published: Tuesday 14 January 1941
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 361 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Echoes From Town

... had one funnel and her engine power was 10-horse. She performed a canal tow at slightly over three m.p.h., but was never a commercial proposition, and was laid up for years in a canal creek. All the windjammer men scorned the idea of sea-going • steam ...

Published: Monday 22 October 1945
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 656 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR. JOHN FORD

... of Natthiitam and Coon. o. L. Booin (anainnan. DNsion ■na Staplofard U.D.C.). Church SOS to Women Time Pact for One Sex Alone ABIC extension the work of women in the Church and better conditions of train* Archbishops of Canterbury and York In a report ...

Published: Tuesday 25 January 1944
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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Echoes From Town

... of domestic as well as other affairs by masculine autocrats. From this point of view and that of women who declare how much better things would be women designed homes and fixed the position of the kitchen sink, last week's House Commons debate on the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 685 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

E-BOAT CREW JUMPED FOR IT The crew of a German if-boal leapt into the water when their craft was shot

... damaged, and several barges hit by two olher pilots scouring the Courtrai and Ghent area. The other pilots swooped on on the Lys canal. leaving one sinking. All our planes returned. There was a lull in the R.A.F.’s night oflensive on Wednesday for the first ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1943
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Echoes From Town

... explanation may be that Belgium does not have so many convenient canals. Husband To Wife. BEFORE the Prime Minister left for America he handed to his wife, president of the Young Women's Christian Association Wartime Fund, the sum of £400 to help the ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1941
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LIBERALS DIVIDED

... candidature of Mrs Corbett Ashby at Bury St. Edmunds, where she standing as Independent Liberal She resigned chairman of the women’s Liberal Association fight the by-election. The group passed resolution by two to one majority Rtdtaal action culdad In mat ...

Published: Monday 07 February 1944
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 427 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... coolness and self-control of the Dutch people was astonishing. The usual flood cyclists streamed steadily down the roads, men, women, and girls pausing only snatch up special editions of newspapers containing all official announcements. They scanned them briefly ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 391 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Echoes From Town

... own malaria problem at Panama, are sending China medical experts of the same type that made possible the' building of the canal. The U.S.A. is also supplying quantities of railway material. Railway Sabotage. THE Paris police are offering reward for the ...

Published: Friday 05 December 1941
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOTTINGHAM’S BIG POSER—HOUSING

... BIG POSER—HOUSING Y'OMEN TOLD OF CITY’S POSTWAR PLANS AND PROBLEMS EMBERS of the Nottingham Business and Pro•LTA fessional Women’s Club were last night given insight into the postwar development and improvement of the city by Mr. R- M. Finch, City Engineer ...

Published: Thursday 25 November 1943
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 4 | Tags: none