Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... Lionel Barry- more. BETWEEN TWO WOMEN.” Canal Docks Manager is Retiring 5l service with the Manchester Ship Canal Mr. Warren J. Bruce is retiring as docks manager. His service with the company began in 1894 when the Canal was opened for through traffic ...
... Robson. D. 5.0.. R.N. Women Wanting Canal Work Not Strong Enough, Say Officials Adventurous women vita a desire for an open-air life are now offering themselves for work on barges. and Mr A. P. Herbert, M.P., who has made a study of canal-life sees no reason ...
... 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 ...
... people are aware of this fact, the canals in Britain are now playing an important part in the war transport system. Women and youths, as well as the experienced bargees. have been doing a splendid job in assuring the canals a regular flow of traffic. During ...
... who is described in the Gazette the principal trainer of women crews for canal boats. Miss Nancy Adam (M.BE.), the first woman officer of the T.U.C., looks after the interests of thousands of women in industry. She was formerly on the headquarter staff ...
... good housewifery.” Women to Work Canal Boats The Birmingham Gazette learns that the Ministry of War Transport has been informed by the Grand Union Canal Carrying Co. that the experimental scheme for the training women aboard canal boats is ...
... Gen. Eisenhower’s chapffeuse, Mrs. Kay Summersby, gives the names of 1,070 men and women. The awards are 200 ...
... General Eisenhower’s chauffeuse. Mrs. Kay Summersby, gives the names of 1,070 men and women. The awards are 200 (18 women) 0.8.E.5; 371 (77 women) M.B.E.s; and 489 (59 women) B.E.M.s, and there are ten commendations for valuable service in the air. 0.8. E ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... tickets overboard jumping after them himself J:' Make Things Easier beini! ' it is cood to find that generally speaking women canal to the job If they get bit : flustered on occasions then it is up to to help much we can They do their troubles may be realised ...
... sent to the medical officer complaining of the mosquitoes by the Basingstoke Canal. ' The writers have been informed that the Council have no jurisdiction over the canal. WOMEN UNIONISTS MEET AT WALTON NEED FOR KEEPING PARTY ALIVE The need for keeping the ...