... COAL TO LONDON The women canal boatees open their winter campaign. Many of the Londoners who will be able to purchase coal this winter will owe it to the hard work of a gallant band of women volunteers who bring coal to London in canal barges-- or, as they ...

... latest approximate figures of those guarding that area day and night are 15,300 men, 3,000 women, and 1,250 youths working full time, and about 6,000 men, 1,500 women, and 1,000 youths part time, or just over 28,000 people in all. But even this is not sufficient ...

... MAN THE CANAL BOATS ARRIVE AT THE DOCK TO TAKE OVER Because more and more use will be made of the canals as a means of transport when the Second Front opens, the scheme for the training of women to handle the barges (begun by the Grand Union Canal Company ...

... highways along which passed many cargoes. For years canals were considered to be ob solete. It was the Grand Union Canal Company, into which had been absorbed several other canal systems, who realised that canals had a future as well as a past. They built up ...

... ago, the Erma passed through the Caledonian Canal, in Scotland, and is now making its way across the Atlantic. Among the five women on board, two are grandmothers. Here the small yacht is seen in Caledonian Canal on the first stage of its journey ...

... enemy bombers broke up the midnight service t ■anrii imirmnrwnn 1 1 iwn-- BRITISH TROOPS IN HOLLAND SKATING ON THE FROZEN CANALS AND DYKES with young Dutch boys and girls as teachers. Among the soldiers are Canadian Air Force personnel and men resting ...

... removed and are being handed over to the Grand Union Canal authorities. They are known as the Poplar and the Cardiff the former worked in the Surrey Canal, and the latter was employed in the docks and canal. Here they are seen in tow, passing the Tower Bridge ...

... drainage canal some feet above the level of the Cambridgeshire Fens A PARTY OF LAND-GIRLS, now engaged on the cultivation of the reclaimed Fenland areas, cheer as the King and Queen go by. Later their Majesties talked to some of these women ...

... Eindhoven Road and on it, opposite Meijel and the main canal obstacles which had to be overcome, lies the Dutch town of Walkensvaard. The several crossings over the Noorden Canal and the Wessem Canal were soon merged into bigger bridgeheads. An important ...

... jobs will be performed by women as in the last war car-driving, clerical work, first- aid, cooking and waiting. In another category will be women who are help ing the fitters with the maintenance of aircraft. There are many women in the Civil Air Guard, ...

... Council, com posed of fourteen to twenty-four members. Men and women over twenty years of age alike enjoy the franchise THE INTERNAL TRAFFIC OF BANGKOK IS CHIEFLY CARRIED ON BY MEANS OF CANAL Life on a typical Klong, or waterway Until comparatively recent ...

... wooden panels formerly used A BOATWOMAN ON HER BARGE ON AN ENGLISH CANAL Thee women have been trained under a special Ministry of War Transport scheme to operate barges on the many canals throughout the country. Most of them are under twenty-four years ...