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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

COAL FROM THE CANAL

... COAL FROM THE CANAL. tlid not steal the coal; had it given u« boys in the water/' said one of the two defendants, when Evelyn Peach (39), 150, Valley Hoad, and Florence Jackson (42), Ittf, Valley Hoad. Blakenall. were summoned for stealing quantity of ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1941
Newspaper: Walsall Observer
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 6 | 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

Women's Junior Air Corps

... Women's Junior Air Corps. About *» the young ladies of Walsall have responded the effort that being made form a branch the Women's Junior Air Corps in the town. They are eager be useful in this direction as are the lads the Cadet Corps Sir William Talbot ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1941
Newspaper: Walsall Observer
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 811 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

British Women Keep Transport Moving

... British - women are helping to keep the wheels of the transport services turning. An army of women is being enrolled and trained by the railways to take the places of railwaymen released to Join the Colours. More than 10,000 railway women have far been ...

Published: Friday 23 May 1941
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WALSALLWEDNESDAY: COAL THEFTS A War Reserve constable, off duty and in plain cloth's, saw two women loading ..

... WALSALLWEDNESDAY: COAL THEFTS A War Reserve constable, off duty and in plain cloth's, saw two women loading coal into a truck on the canal-aide. he told Mrs. M. B. Dewsbury (presiding), Councillor A. 11.. Burst and Mr. 3.3. McShane, wben Mazy Ellen Davie ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1941
Newspaper: Rugeley Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 578 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STEALING COAL UNCONSCIOUSLY

... realise they were stealing it, two women, Mary Ellen Davis (49). 32, Abbott# Street and Gladys Fallon (36). 91. Green Rock Lane, were charged with stealing quantity of coal valued 2s. 3d., the property of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. They were said to ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1941
Newspaper: Walsall Observer
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 116 | Page: 9 | 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