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A Kill Near Shirrall Hall

... in poor sport from Dunston. Although hounds dhopped a hare which got up in the middle of the pack, there was no hunting to speak of. The most enjoyable part of the afternoon was undoubtedly the excellent tea provided by Major and Mrs. Thorneycroft. The ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 283 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUDLEY

... educated woman in dealing with certain cases. ■According to the Chief Constable, the accused persons in indecency cases would not speak in the presence of a female. Surely that emphasised the need for getting the right type of woman to deal with those cases. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 324 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

UNIVERSAL WEE

... Councillor T, B. Pritchett, to-morrow’s dinner-hour service h the parish church, St. Martin’s. Bw R ing. The Mayor will attend . speak from the chancel steps, and former minister of Handswoiy Baptist Church, the Rev. F. K Spurr, will be the preacher. Rector ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 140 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BRIGHTER AIR RAID SHELTERS

... order when speaking at Coventry City Council, yesterday, about a new factory which after being proposed in Coventry was taken to another town, Councillor Alec Turner said: Perhaps one day you will be sorry that you did not allow me to speak, and to endeavour ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 484 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CAR DRIVER “TOO DRUNK TO SPEAK”

... CAR DRIVER “TOO DRUNK TO SPEAK” —Police Story to have been too drunk to speak, William Williams, aged 42. garage proprietor, of Summerfield-crescent, Edgbaston, Birmingham, was at Dudley to-day fined £l5 and £1 ss. costs for driving a motorcar while under ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 359 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

other Shaw films

... undertaken in England since the siege of Hitler began, and its sponsors look upon it as an event of great importance to English speaking peoples throughout the world. I not think they claim too much, but while wishing them success, let us remember that hundreds ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS

... Thomas Job, a student at Yale University. His play was recommended to the Repertory Theatre by Professor Allardyce Nicoll, who speaks highly of its dramatic value, its high comedy, and of its aptness to the present time. It is set in a little explored period ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1033 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

At Christmas, 1938, Government Said

... headmasters, in London yesterday, that the Government had d him not only of his home, but also of the contents of his }Ur. Was speaking at the con- s of the Incorporated th ° Headmasters on caused by the Uni * eer n some schools Civn g his own) for the use ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WEEK OF PRAYER

... Alliance was accorded civic recognition by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham at to-day’s dinner hour service at St. Martin’s. Speaking from the chancel steps, he said that unlike the Lord Mayors who had gone before him, he had found himself in a tumult arising ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 640 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen*

... ‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen* KARL DE LA WARR, President cf the Board of Education, speaking at Oxford to-day, said that under the schools evacuation scheme an important Quaker boarding school was sharing quarters successfully with a Roman Catholic boarding ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RECITAL ELGARS EARLY SONATA

... performance showed unmistakably. GERMANY TENDING TO THE LEFT THE MENACE OF CONTINUAL REVOLUTION Th© Bishop of Carlisle, speaking at Carlisle yesterday, said; “You have only to listen to that remarkable person known to most people as Lord Haw-Haw to see ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 874 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SCHOOLS DEPLORED

... certain other interferences with secondary education were. Some schools had been commandeered for the use of Civil Servants. I speak as a homeless wanderer over the face of the earth. I have no home, because my house has been taken for the use of a very important ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 393 | Page: 10 | Tags: none