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... Gramophone. 9.0: 15.8.C. Midland Orchestra, with Owen Brannigan (bass). 9.40: ‘'Starlight”' (recording). 9.55: Talk about women canal workers. 10.5: News commentary for schools. 10.15: Time and religious service. 10.30: Debroy Somers Band 11.0: For schools ...
... League; George Henry Edwards, under-manager, Kingsbury Collieries, Ltd.; Miss Eily Tolley Gayford, principal trainer of women crews for canal boats. Herbert Glover, honorary secretary, Stratford-on-Avon Savings Committee; Arthur Barker Hatton, technical manager ...
... Women on tlie Canals Some forty girls are manning canal boats between London and Birmingham. There might well have been many more recrjiits but for the fact that headquarters has been in London. This has meant that Midland girls have had to spend a large ...
... Canal Enterprise hen the Royal Assent is given to the Grand Union Canal Bill, 1943, it will be the first time that a British canal company has been empowered to take part in the operation of ajl forms of transport—by land, sea and air. Railway companies ...
... than the “Canal Duke’s” and insisted on doing it his own * The other is Robert Haldane shaw, sometime the Duke's ag ...
... LONDON LETTER FOR* WOMEN 88, Fleet Street, E.C. 4 New Year’s Day More A.T.S. Wanted Thousands of recruits are wanted for the A.T.S., as a considerable expansion has recently been authorised; and an intensive recruiting drive is to be organised throughout ...
... and Indian Forces who served in Africa west of the Suez Canal and the (Red Sea (excluding West Africa) between certain dates. Service in North Africa (excluding formations not west of the Suez Canal and the Red Sea), Abyssinia, Italian Somaliland and (Eritrea ...
... war service have women served more valiantly. By 1948 more than a thousand balloon sites were operated by the W.A.A.F., which thus facilitated the transfer of many other balloon squadrons to theatres of war overseas. Not all young women, of course, are ...
... | :: WOMEN’S INTERESTS :: At ■ LONDON LETTER FOR WOMEN TO 88, 'Fleet Street, E.C. 4, sale for commodities to relieve eye-strain. One Sunday Night buyer tells me she can hardly get sufficient _ .. i i supplies of a cream for the purpose. Hair- Problems ...
... man was in the canal. At the canal is thirty feet wide, four feet deep, with an accumulation of mud at aot tom to a depth of eighteen inches. V- Amoving his helmet and tunic, and *‘is lamp to a bystander to shine on the dived into the canal, swam to the ...
... pnssed the women gathered the scattered potatoes into buckets, they emptied into four carts set at equal intervals up the field. While the digger was returning to ♦the top there was time for picking Tup, though sometimes the older and (slower women kept it ...
... 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 ...