... half of which is coal. A casual observer is tempted to think of canals as placid waterways meandering through pleasant coun- try. These are the canals which he mainly sees, but ther are canals in the Black Country, among coalfields and in the industrialized ...

... TWOPENCE FROM CANAL FIRE-FIGHTING TROLLEY MADE BY, HANWELL MAN Can Be Operated By Women A mobile fire-fighting trolley, which can be worked as easily by women as by men, has been constructed by Mr. G. F. Tegg, leader of the Stephenson-road, Hanwell, ...

... Suez Canal LAST WAR - AND THIS The speaker at the Hampstead Women Citizens' Association last Friday at 24, Fairhazel Gardens, Hampstead, was Mr. Hugh J. Schonfield, who spoke on the Suez Canal. It was, he said, the most important waterway in the world ...

... 38,000 WOMEN ON RAILWAYS There are now 38,000 women doing work on the railways that was formerly done by men. About 80,000 railwaymen are serving with the Forces. This mentioned by COL Llewellin (Minister of Transport) in the House of Commons yesterday ...

... COMPULSION WOMEN MAY For your own and the country’s good you should now (1) how best to live a healthy and comfortable Shelter life, (2) the help you will get if you are mbed. Read the information given below, and the leaflets which you will shortly receive ...

... point: some of the buildings we have to guard are from the place where he and when women's hastels, and it is prefer- was emp. _ ques- ‘They're Taught Here: able to have women fire watchers toned sad for them. | Aer know whv I took it. I ow us: Aave GQ a ...

... to Women Bargees Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P., who wrote The Water Gipsies from his own experiences while sailing on the Thames and on canals, thinks women could work on barges. But please don't use the word bargee,' he urged. In opinion women would ...

... highways along which passed many cargoes. For years canals were considered to be ob solete. It was the Grand Union Canal Company, into which had been absorbed several other canal systems, who realised that canals had a future as well as a past. They built up ...

... Girls Offer to Be Bargees Women are offering their services as bargees to cope with the shortage of crews on the canals. Since officials of small boat clubs circularised their members at the Transport Ministry's request, as many women as men have written stating ...

... —Diploma Laundry, 34/26. Verney-rd. 0141 Kent-rd. near Canal Bridge. 31 I.)AcKERS and Sorters and other Expertsliced Laundry Workers Required.— Kwick Mean Laundry Service Clock Tower. Lewisham, C 24 STRONG Women Wanted for work in laundry: no previous experience ...

... Tower. Lewisnam. 5.E.13 C 24 4,ITRONLI Women Wanted for work in i•J laundry; no previous experience neces.sary; regular employment: per hour. —Apply, 197, Grove-st, Deptford, S.E.B. 31 IN , An CEO, Strong Women for work in Laundry: no previous experience ...

... —Diploma Laundry, WM. Verney-rd, Old Kent-rd. near Canal Bridge 31 PACKERS and Sorters and other Experienced Laundry Workers Required.— Kwick Klean Laundry Service. Clock Tower. Lewisham, 5.E.13. Cl 4 QTRONG Women Wanted for work in IJ laundry; no previous ...