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CANAL CRUISE

... CANAL CRUISE Last Saturday members of the Burnley British Legion women's section went on canal eruiee to Clayton-le-Moors, about 200 taking part. The weather was ideal for the journey, and tea was had arrival at Clayton. Afterwards the party journeyed ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1939
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CANAL GALS!

... CANAL GALS! Women volunteets are now leamlng to operate canal craft. After an intensive two months' training. during which they live. eat and sleep on board. three girls are able to take control of a pair of boats to help in the canal transport of Brit/vat's ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1944
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BABY IN CANAL

... attendance of unveiled Moslem women. Prevented from forcing an entrance into the club, the mob forced its way into a cinema full of Moslem women, hurling stones, firing pistols, and throwing the place into panic. A number of women were wounded Promising stern ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1944
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 783 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CANAL RESCUE

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 15 May 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 216 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DROWNED IN CANAL

... DROWNED IN CANAL A verdict that accidentally fell into the canal and was drowned was returned at the resumed inqnest Earby last Thursday morning Barnoldswick loomer and twister, named Doctor Grimshaw (51), of 16, Bethel-street, whose body was recovered ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1939
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Body in Canal

... Body in Canal jThe body of Richard Wright Green, aged 73. retired joiner, of 28. Sibsey-street, Lancaster was recovered from the Preston- Kendal canal, at Slyne-with-Hest yesterday. Myra Jean James, aged 19. of 5 Elgin-street, Preston, suffered abrasions ...

Published: Monday 04 June 1945
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BABY IN CANAL

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 01 May 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 623 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SUEZ CANAL RAID

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 04 March 1942
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 995 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Healthy Canal Boats

... Healthy Canal Boats Not a single case of infectious disease had been found on board canal boat in Runcorn during the year. The canal boat inspector to the Euncorn Urban Council, in his annual report, stated that 549 canal boats were on the register. He ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 63 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BLACKOUT CANAL TRAGEDY

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1939
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 91 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SAVED BOY FROM CANAL

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 21 September 1942
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 107 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CANAL BLACKOUT TRAGEDY

... '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 ...

Published: Friday 08 December 1939
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 223 | Page: 12 | Tags: none