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Farm Sunday

... j I St. Albans Here in the Market Square hundreds of Land Girls, members of Young Farmers' Clubs, Farmers and their wives and school children gathered for a great open-air service to mark . Guildford here was celebrated by a parade of all who work on the land, with their s' ftheir wfSBon3 and their horses and farm stock. On a little dais decorated by sheaves of corn the Mayor of Guildford ...

A Hospital Feeds Itself

... THE City General Hospital in Leiceste has to cater daily for patients, nurses maids, housemen and cleaners a total t: 800 persons. Nevertheless, with the excep tion of meat, it is fed entirely from produo grown on eighty acres of its grounds. Sis gardeners and two land-girls (who only joinei the hospital staff three months ago) an responsible for this achievement. Stric accounts are kept by ...

Mechanised Intercrop Work

... By J. C. Litterick, F.I.M.T. COMPLETE mechanisation of intercrop cultivation--row crop work, as it is called--has proved one of the hardest problems agricultural engineering has had to solve. But the problems are solved and enormous progress in this practical branch of agricultural science has taken place during the past few years. A rowcrop demonstration, attended by hundreds of expert ...

Rapier on Racing

... J^ahtPyZ- O'PV THE Stewards have issued an extension to the existing Fixture List, which will carry us as far as August 14. The full list, that is to say, the fixtures for the remaining half of the season, was not decided on when The Racing Calendar of July 1 went to press. We have been extremely fortunate so far and, if we are so lucky as to secure a fixed date for the St. Leger and the ...

Lakeland Holidays

... NOW that high summer has arrived, the war-worker's mind turns to thoughts of the holidays of the past, and of the future, when victory will allow a return to the pleasures of pepce. But it is still possible to snatch an occasional week-end, and the picture above shows a riding party on Cartmel Fell, north Lancashire, where Mr. George Dickenson's stables provide a pleasant canter for his party. ...

Sport in the City

... By A. Croxton Smith THE great clearance of property in the heart of the City of London attributable to enemy action is to have one result that must have been entirely unexpected. A garden party and fĂȘte is being held in the devastated area adjacent to St. Paul's, on Saturday, July 31, and the following Monday, the organisers being the London Fire Force. After the deduction of expenses the ...

WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF THE LONGSTOP HILL V.C

... WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF THE LONGSTOP HILL V.C. MRS. ANDERSON is the wife of Lieut. (Temp. Captain Acting Major) Jx>hn Thompson McKellar Anderson D.S.O., the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who has won the V.C. for gallantry in Tunisia. On April 23, St. George s Day, Major Anderson, with four officers and fewer than forty men, captured the famous enemy stronghold, 44 Longstop Hill. Further at ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 85 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPITFIRE VIEW OF A CHERRY PICKER!

... SPITFIRE VIEW OF A CHERRY PICKER A Spitfire pilot might perhaps have glimpsed a vietv like ihis when flying over the Garden of England, for the Kentish cherry crop has been a record one this year. Gathering in the harvest from a cherry orchard calls for a lot of energy and a certain amount of daring so no wonder the little girl tcho has been left grounded while her mother climbs aloft is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 75 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... The first freight-carrying glider to fly the Atlantic has just reached Britain from Canada. It was towed across by a Dakota aircraft of R.A.F. Transport Command, the 3,500-miles journey being covered in 28 flying hours. It is the first time in history that an air train has crossed the Atlantic, and the flight has created a world record in the total distance covered by a glider carrying cargo ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Surrender of the Island of LAMPEDUSA: After the Fall of Pantellaria: And other War Pictures from Distant ..

... The Surrender of 'the Island of LAMPEDUSA After the Fall of Pantellaria And other War Pictures from Distant Theatres of Conflict THE HARBOUR ENTRANCE AT LAMPEDUSA AS THE ROYAL NAVY SAW IT ON JUNE 12. The white flag of surrender flies at the masthead, with the Italian flag at half-mast behind. A concrete pill-box can be seen to the right of the flag-masts THE SCENE AS THE VICTORS LANDED ON THE ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 346 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHURCHILL'S GUILDHALL SPEECH ILLUSTRATED--150 YEARS AGO!

... CHURCHILL'S GUILDHALL SPEECH ILLUSTRATED-- 150 YEARS AGO! COPYRIGHT RESERVED FOR THE OWNER. Mr. Churchill's stirring description of the British Commonwealth and Empire in his Guildhall speech is perfectly illustrated by this allegorical drawing by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg R.A., made 150 years before the speech ivas delivered for Loutherbourg was born in 1780 and died in 1812. The ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs