... the canal. women are shopping between gutted Bouses and blackened walls. “ The nights are the worst in Hamburg. When darkness falls people with bags stream to shelters, where they queue to obtain poor berths. As it gets dark, flgmes can still be seen ...

... WOMEN VOLUNTEERS For Canal Barges Women volunteers to work barges the Leeds and Liverpool Canal should apply at 74, Pall Mall, Liverpool. A training scheme, backed by the Ministry of War Transport, will start on Monday, when the first four volunteers ...

... CANAL BOAT Lwomen MRS. R. Currie, who is to supervise the scheme to train women to run canal boats, has herself been in charge of a boat for a year. The type of women wanted, she told the London Star must not be under 20. Younger girls are not strong ...

... Wigan yesterday and her way slowly in the direction of Liverpool on a canal which will prove to be somewhat epoch-making. She is j.,hrat barge to sail the northern canal with an all-women crew, an' 1 transport officials regard the trip as the initiation of ...

... work in training women as canal boat crews, grows indignant if you talk of her craft and hex crews as barges and bargees. Barges sail on estuaries or the open sea. Canal craft are long boats or monkey boats, and the proper term for the canal families “boaters ...

... TWO WOMEN FOUND DROWNED IN CANAL Two married women have been found drowned in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. One, Mrs. Dorothy Proctor, aged 30, wife of Fred Proctor, a tackier, of 26 Bedford Square, Leigh, left her home on Friday, November 24, ostensibly ...

... CANAL RESCUE Chester Fishmonger Saves 4-Year-Old Girl Mr. John Walsh, a well-known Chester fishmonger, who lives at Durban-avenue, Christleton. saved four-years-old Christleton girl from drowning in the canal at Christleton, on Saturday night. He had ...

... BLACKOUT CANAL TRAGEDY The body of Margaret Unsworth, aged 35, of 30 Siddow Common, Leigh, was recovered from the Bridgewater Canal, near Butts Mill, Leigh, to-day. She was a winder at the mill, and about ten o’clock last night she and two women were taking ...

... BABY IN CANAL On Wednesday, April 26, the body of a female baby was found in the canal near the Old Roan Inn, Aintree. Seaforth police are anxious to trace two women seen near the canal Thursday, April 20. Both are about 30, with flaxen hair, and may ...

... SUEZ CANAL RAID 4 R.A.F. NIGHT FIGHTERS IN ACTION A special communique issued yesterday from Headquarters. R.A.F., Middle East* Cairo, read: Enemy aircraft operated over the Suez Canal dining last night. Some bombs were dropped. Night fighters of the ...

... SAVED BOY FROM CANAL The chairman of Bootle bench (Mr. T. Harris) to-day presented Harry Slater, Litherland Road. Bootle, with the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society’s Bronze Medal and Certificate and £2 for rescuing boy from the canal. Similar awards ...

... 'mill winder, who was drowned in the Bridgew'ataer Canal when taking a short cut home from work with five other women. Lillian Mary Tobin, aged 18, said she was walking home with others along the canal bank. She was linking arms with the dead woman, who was ...