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KIEL CANAL GUARD

... KIEL CANAL GUARD Sylt, a narrow island 23 miles long, guards the approach to the Kiel Canal. Westerland aerodrome is on the west coast. The attack on Aalborg Aerodrome, in Northern Denmark, from which the Germans have been flying troops to Norway, is ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 566 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WELL-PAID WAF WORK FOR WOMEN

... 17.—Please apply to the Women's Employment Dept. ARP- —Reserve Fire Watchers Required by • the Manchester Ship Canal Company.— Entolment forms and conditions of service may be obtained from the Chief Police. Manchester Ship Canal Company. Dock Office, Trafford ...

Published: Tuesday 31 December 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 3110 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE ADVERTISER FRIDAY JANUARY 5 1940 DISREGARDED warning —FOUND DROWNED evacuees dead in icebound CANAL NO ..

... 1940 DISREGARDED warning —FOUND DROWNED evacuees dead in icebound CANAL NO NEGLIGENCE— CORONER young Manchester evacuees brother lister disregarded warning to slide on the ice-bound canal and were subsequently found drowned related at the Macclesfield inquest ...

Let's Buy A Bike! Briefer than ever are Hollywood’s 1940 bathing suits. Ellen Drew, appearing in Paramount’s ..

... Let's Buy A Bike! Briefer than ever are Hollywood’s 1940 bathing suits. Ellen Drew, appearing in Paramount’s Geronimol and Women Without Names,” snapped in hers during a bicycle work-out. The costume stretches in whatever direction her muscles direct, ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 923 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Amendments Needed

... ;:tfort of in canal 11 ,, ats. 'ishere were found on board, 510 men. _ 190 wolucti, and 143 children, giving a percentage of 60.5 men, 22.53 women. and 16.97 children, c , mipared with the previous year's figures of 61.19% men, l 20.25% women and 18.56% ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 156 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Britain’s Answer

... that 400,000 British troops were AMBULANCE WOMEN FROM BORDEAUX AMONG LAST TO LEAVE After nearly four weeks’ silence through being swallowed up in the retreat from Northern France to Bordeaux, forty-two women drivers comprising the first section of the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 329 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RAMBLE

... rail on, bunday, Mr. H. Parker and Secretary J. Bagot being the hares.' The , route irom Lancaster to Hest Bank! was by the Canal towpath, and then along the shore to lsolton-le-Sands.' Here the trail was lost, and it was decided to wade Ine beer toping ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1940
Newspaper: Morecambe Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FUNERAL OF MRS. J. MARSH

... FUNERAL OF MRS. J. MARSH Members of the Women’s Own connected , the Hey wood Road Methodist Church attended the funeral of Mrs Bertha Marsh, widow Mr Joseph Marsh of 22 Canal Street which took place at St. Martin’s on Thursday afternoon Mrs. Marsh, who ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 99 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SUDDEN STOP

... unstuck. The two were as near walking into Garstang Canal as made no difference. But they arrived back MEMMIIIMIIMMI In Pilling with the barna! While the two men were walking to Garstang a band of women set out with sacks in the opposite direction—to Knott ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1940
Newspaper: Fleetwood Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 161 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LADY ASTOiI PROUD OF HER SEX

... Centre, Grange Avenue, off Manchester Road. St. Helens. —A.R.P. Centre at Pilkington Bros. Ship Canal Zone.—Two special courses for all firms in the Ship Canal zone at the Dock Office Canteen, Salford Docks, Trafford Road. Firms wishing to have a representative ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 340 | Page: 4 | Tags: none