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... 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 ...
... WOMEN CANAL CREWS MAN EXPRESSES” NOEL BAKER (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport) told Mr. Thorne (Lab., Plaistow) in the Commons to-day that the through journey between London and Birmingham. is being made by narrow canal boats ...
... 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 ...
... social services, and to-morrow Aid. Cox is lunching with the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. Women to Work Canal Boats More women volunteers are needed for training to operate canal boats. If found suitable trainees are given control of a pair of boats, consisting ...
... 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 ...
... bouquet, and Master F. Hefford, who gave Councillor Wibberley a buttonhole. GETTING DOWN TO IT.—That is what these three women of Canal Street, Burton, are doing in more ways than one. While the menfolk go to it at their work, Mrs. J. Bates, Mrs. E. Dawson ...
... is called the Venice of Central France,” she writes. There are quite a hundred bridges. Barges pass to and fro along the canal; women do their washing on its banks, and one day, when the German prisoners of iwar were passing along to their work one of the ...
... 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 ...
... Women on Canals The scheme for training women’s crew s for canal boats is being somewhat extended, and there will shortly be vacancies for a limited number of additional trainees. Forms of application and particulars of service can be obtained from the ...
... 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 ...