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Canal Scheme

... Canal Scheme To make maximum use of the system, the Ministry has lade arrangements which it is ■’oped will result in allocation to anals of suitable blocks of traffic Every boat that can manned the 2.500 miles of our inland waterways to-day busily employed; ...

Published: Friday 31 October 1941
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 165 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FISHING TRAGEDY IN CANAL

... FISHING TRAGEDY IN CANAL TWO LITTLE FOLESHILL BROTHERS DROWNED Accident Seen By Playmate TWO Coventry brothers, Ronald Charles Tomalin, .aged 9, and Ernest John Toinalin, aged 7, of 73, Radford Rd., were victims of drowning tragedy in Eolesliill on Saturday ...

Published: Monday 28 July 1941
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 466 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WOMEN WANT CASUAL WORK

... WOMEN WANT CASUAL WORK Not Strong Enough, Officials Say Adventurous women with 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 why they should not ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 276 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

WOMEN AND GIRLS

... WOMEN AND GIRLS The corresponding figures for women and girls were: 191,648 wholly unemployed. 34.015 tem p o r arily stopped, and 919 unemployed casual workers. Compared with February 10, these figures show reductions of 39,781 in the numbers wholly ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1941
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 511 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER FOR* WOMEN

... LONDON LETTER FOR* WOMEN 88, Fleet Street, E.C. 4 New Year’s Day More A.T.S. Wanted Thousands of recruits are wanted for the A.T.S., as a considerable expansion has recently been authorised; and an intensive recruiting drive is to be organised throughout ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1941
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 556 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

1911 WOMEN REGISTER

... 1911 WOMEN REGISTER Women born in 1911 “signed on” for national service to-day in the second of the fortnightly “speedup” registrations. Thev were the first to register since Mr. Revin’s call for 1,000,000 married women. the Smethwick Aid Society, tfce ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1941
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1046 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SITUATIONS VACANT

... SITUATIONS VACANT ANTED. Good Experienced Canal Tug Drivers and Boatmen.—Apply, John Toole, Ltd., Bradley, Bilston. CTRONG Women, to work in Dairy, whole or part - time. —Apply. Employment Manager. Midland Counties Dairy, Ltd., Corporation-st., Birmingham ...

Published: Tuesday 21 October 1941
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 35 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IMRpi ALBERT STREET. BIRMINGHAM NAZIS FOUGHT ITALIANS IN GREECE

... TWO DEAD IN CANAL The body of Private Harold George Lang, aged 29. of Sevenfield-terrace, Plymouth, was found in the canal near Bingley, Yorkshire, to-day. Mary Taren, aged 20. of Norfolk-street, Bingley, was found drowned in the canal last Sunday. Lang ...

Published: Friday 26 September 1941
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 184 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WANTED

... Priscilla MiDoiuilil. canal boat woman, canal boat Haildon. (laughter of Mr. Kttoch Charles McDonaicl (deceased), canal boatman; and Mr. John l.anc. canal boatman, of canal boat. Denton, of Mr. Kinest Charles Dane (deceased), ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1941
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 564 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Not Stone-built

... Matthews's great-grandfather was Archdeacon Spooner, of Coventry. Women For War V/ork A Slow Response The number of women who have on tor work in the munition fuclonee the Exhibition of Women'll War Work at the Neutral Hall, Coventry, averageii ‘M day since ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1941
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2064 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Work of Cecil Houses

... in. Kensal Boad was victim not of bombs but of the black-out. On winter nights the approach to it over a canal was so dark and sinister that women were too scared to find it and, on economic grounds, that home was closed. Each of the other three houses ...

Published: Tuesday 30 September 1941
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FROM

... men, 312 woman, 91 children under 16, and three unclassified) were killed, and 1.068 (598 men, 365 women, and 105 children) were injured. Neck Deep in Canal Trapped in a saloon car up to the neck in water, an elderly Burton-on-Trent man named Atkins was ...

Published: Monday 10 March 1941
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 195 | Page: 6 | Tags: none