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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 ...
... is called the Venice of Central France,” she writes. There are quite a hundred bridges. Barges pass to and fro along the canal; women do their washing on its banks, and one day, when the German prisoners of iwar were passing along to their work one of the ...
... Brighter Canals Tipton stay-at-home holiday entertainments yielded a profit of £l,OOO. The Council should get the R.A.F. to call at Venice and bring them some gondolas for next year. And Keep On Paying Buyers of poppies this year are asked to hand them ...
... CANAL MYSTERY SHIP HELPS IN POLICE SEARCH A ship proceeding up the Exeter canal to-day helped police investigations into the mystery of two legs which have been found in the canal. Police officers followed the boat in the hope that the wash created by ...
... 1907 WOMEN REGISTER VVomen born in 1907 registered for National Service to-day. All, whether married or single, bad to sign on unless in exempted classes. They will not be compelled to enter the auxiliary services if liable for call-up, but may do so ...
... 1911 WOMEN REGISTER Women born in 1911 “signed on” for national service to-day in the second of the fortnightly “speedup” registrations. Thev were the first to register since Mr. Revin’s call for 1,000,000 married women. the Smethwick Aid Society, tfce ...
... “TEA PARTY” WAR EFFORT CRITICISM BY WOMEN LIBERALS Women who give their lives for their country and others who adopt too much the “tea party” standard in their war effort were both referred to at the Women’s Liberal Federation meeting in London to-day ...
... Because more and more use will be made of the canals as a means of transport when the Second Front opens, the trairyng of women to handle the barges has now been reorganised. Our picture shows Audrey Harper learning to use a boat hook. 1 1 1111 —‘■■ ...
... LEWIS’S BOOT REPAIRS ARE MILES BETTER; Women’s, Sewn Sole and Heel, 3/9; Men’s, Sewn Sole and Heel, 4/9 LEWIS’S. LTD., BIRMINGHAM. 'Phone: CENtral 8251 A.R.P. IN BIRMINGHAM of Home Security which would involve the inspection of all gas masks issued, he ...
... l/XPERIENCED Lady Stock Clerk neqd.— App. Grand Union. Canal Co. Sami>son K ...
... dived into a Derbyshire canal to rescue income tax official has been presented with a framed testimonial. Strangely enough, the man who pushed the income tax man into the canal gets nothings ...
... well-dressed men and women. Their selfishness and roughness is most conspicuously shown in the shops, buses, cates, restaurants, places of amusement, and on the footpaths of the city’s central streets. Yours, etc., B. The Canals Sir, —While it is true ...