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SUICIDE BY DROWNING bodies of two women Recovered from canal During Same Afternoon wo anc * ree o’clock on Tuesday

... DROWNING bodies of two women Recovered from canal During Same Afternoon wo anc * ree o’clock on Tuesday 161 110011 the bodies of two women one seventy-six years and the other sixtyt got years—were recovered from the Roch-0 Canal. At 220 p.m. a joiner ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1939
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 507 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

“3 R.A.F. MEN KILLED” REPORT

... r®?ort for pnbiicatioa the U.S.A. TV/O WOMEN FOUND CANAL llochdale police found Sarah Hannah (68), Heneside Crescent, Hazel Grove, and Annie Graham, lately lodging Liiey-street. Rochdale, dead in Rochd ile canal. Ihey were found threeqaarters cf mile ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1939
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

the canal

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 16 August 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 189 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOMEN

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 216 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WOMEN ON CANALS The Call for V, (..,111

... WOMEN ON CANALS The Call for V, (.., 111 trader 'beinel thel' From the fact that boa been an important cap , centre for • century and a, and that women boater' low been familiar in the sti of thit town. It would seam on , surface, at any rate, that 7 ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1944
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 348 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CANAL BOAT Lwomen

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 17 April 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 370 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Canal Charges Rise With Docks Wages

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1945
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1584 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DAILY POST SPECIAL

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 13 February 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 565 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Letters To The Editor 44 MORALE AND MARGARINE Sir, —My family and I shared with others the pleasure of the

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1803 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TWO WOMEN FOUND DROWNED IN CANAL

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 102 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Build Canal

... SERIES OF CORNERS WOMEN OF 47 ON WAR WORK POST LONDON SERVICE Tlie Ministry of Labour arc now reallsinß that the vield for war work from the 300 000 women of 47 who register to-day will poor, means that the registration of women above this age groiio ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1943
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 744 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LANCASTER CANAL

... LANCASTER CANAL. On March 4th, Lancaster Canal burst its banks at Hest Bank. In connection with the drainage scheme the pipes had to be carried under the canal. Progress was being made with the boring operations. The Surveyor allowed for excavation lift ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1945
Newspaper: Lancaster Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 6 | Tags: none