... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... welfare of the miners of South Wales. Fireside Chair 'T’HOMAS AMBLER, mate of lank canal barge, gets a . and Miss Elly Gayford. principal ira'ncr of women crews for canal boats, an M B E Since 1910 has been secretary of the Lodge of the Mineworkers Union ...

... Towards Canal To the right of this drive other British troops struck north-east on six-mile front towards the Pannerdcnsch Canal, which really the last stretch of the Lower Rhine before it Joins the Rhine proper. Famous North of England formations took ...

... Dowdy Women The worst destruction along the Danube Canal was caused by mysterious fires which broke out ten days after the Russian occupation. causing the loss of some Russian lives. Through ihc desolation of Leopolds! ad t. with its procession of dowdy ...

... RAILWAY, ROAD, CANAL, AIR, SEA From FRANK MACHIN BLACKPOOL. Wednesday. TIIF. Government was asked to-day to reconsider tin- whole question of transport. With one voire. ihe delegates at the annual conference of the I '»«•»« Railwavmcn pressed for a of ...

... COMPULSION WOMEN MAY For your own and the country's good you should know (i) how best to live healthy and comfortable shelter life. (2) the help you will get if you are bombed. Read the information given below, and the leaflets which you will shortly ...

... s for women desirous of obtaining posts as nursery assistants will be arranged in London and other large towns. The Ministry of Health has suggested that accepted assistants should receive the general rate of pay applicable to whole-time women Civil Defence ...

... Camberwell's women agree with him. Better housing, more open spaces for play and recreation. These are both points in Cecil Manning's political programme. Yrs. Norlli Comhrrvcll is solid tor Manning 'AMAZONS'WANTED FOR CANALS AfORE women volunteers of ...

... was ; more like father than a master to me. £ CUTTING CAR Legs In Canal: Murder Theory Our Oun Correspondent EXETER, Thursday. v A WOMAN, whose severed legs have been found in Exeter Canal, is believed to have been murdered. The legs had been severed below ...

... scheme, as are the rivers and canals m the Spycwald. The second zone is what might called the suburban ring of forts, and is thickly sown with pillboxes, mines, bunkers and. tank raps. In the allotments and gardens of houses, women and children have been digging ...

... the city's handsome new bridges. tired men and women, who still feel they are waking up from a bad dream war, crowd out of the snow into the jammed subway. Shipping has stopped on the Moscow-Volga Canal. The crows have ftn-.shed with the harvest and returned ...