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... WOMEN CANAL CREWS MAN EXPRESSES” NOEL BAKER (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport) told Mr. Thorne (Lab., Plaistow) in the Commons to-day that the through journey between London and Birmingham. is being made by narrow canal boats ...
... social services, and to-morrow Aid. Cox is lunching with the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. Women to Work Canal Boats More women volunteers are needed for training to operate canal boats. If found suitable trainees are given control of a pair of boats, consisting ...
... is called the Venice of Central France,” she writes. There are quite a hundred bridges. Barges pass to and fro along the canal; women do their washing on its banks, and one day, when the German prisoners of iwar were passing along to their work one of the ...
... Women on Canals The scheme for training women’s crew s for canal boats is being somewhat extended, and there will shortly be vacancies for a limited number of additional trainees. Forms of application and particulars of service can be obtained from the ...
... Women on tlie Canals Some forty girls are manning canal boats between London and Birmingham. There might well have been many more recrjiits but for the fact that headquarters has been in London. This has meant that Midland girls have had to spend a large ...
... CHILD'S BODY IN CANAL • Women's Discovery at Coton Nuneaton police are investigating the - tery of a child's body. In a brown paper parcel. In the canai on Tuesday tater the ...
... CANAL LIFE IS GAT. For lb* No-Glamour All-women crews are now man. nine boats on the Grand Union Canal. The boatwomen call themselves No-glamour girls, for their work, they say. is very dirty ! very hard and very continuous. Boats carry coal from ...
... MEND ROBUST WONiN * WANTED FOR CANAL BOATS. Women volunteers are for training to operate canal boats. Trainees are pv my control ef a pair of; boats. consisting -of a motor-boat with a butty. Earnings accruing from the tonnage moved are shared b the ...
... LONGSDON WOMEN’S INSTITUTE The annual meeting re-elected Mrs. Siglev president. After tea Endon WI. members provided a sketch and were thanked Mrs. Smith. DEFENCE OF VICTORIANISM Talk to Potteries Rotarians A defence of the much maliened Victorian Age ...
... REFUGEE DOCTOR RESCUES GIRL FROM MIDLAND CANAL dramatic story of how a German refugee doctor dived into the filth of a Birmingham canal, rescued a six-year-old girl, and then, in dripping and begrimed underclothes, drove her to the General Hospital, has ...
... Because more and more use will be made of the canals as a means of transport when the Second Front opens, the trairyng of women to handle the barges has now been reorganised. Our picture shows Audrey Harper learning to use a boat hook. 1 1 1111 —‘■■ ...
... 4 Rural ncm. No. mm mtfij. LUTTtIWfBMTW B.P.C. BniVß ScOllt The Rugby A3vertlaer» Friday. Match Pth, 1944 5 Women & Local Honoured BIRTHS. MARRIAGES & DEATHS Affairs * . _ . PIIESENTAtICW AT “GOiNC 6 MAKE MHNKLOW Zir*' •“ ' h s^or.Wn^am. THfccs hum t ...