... WOMEN VOLUNTEERS For Canal Barges Women volunteers to work barges the Leeds and Liverpool Canal should apply at 74, Pall Mall, Liverpool. A training scheme, backed by the Ministry of War Transport, will start on Monday, when the first four volunteers ...

... Lionel Barry- more. BETWEEN TWO WOMEN.” Canal Docks Manager is Retiring 5l service with the Manchester Ship Canal Mr. Warren J. Bruce is retiring as docks manager. His service with the company began in 1894 when the Canal was opened for through traffic ...

... Wigan yesterday and her way slowly in the direction of Liverpool on a canal which will prove to be somewhat epoch-making. She is j.,hrat barge to sail the northern canal with an all-women crew, an' 1 transport officials regard the trip as the initiation of ...

... work in training women as canal boat crews, grows indignant if you talk of her craft and hex crews as barges and bargees. Barges sail on estuaries or the open sea. Canal craft are long boats or monkey boats, and the proper term for the canal families “boaters ...

... LANCASTER CANAL. On March 4th, Lancaster Canal burst its banks at Hest Bank. In connection with the drainage scheme the pipes had to be carried under the canal. Progress was being made with the boring operations. The Surveyor allowed for excavation lift ...

... Body in Canal jThe body of Richard Wright Green, aged 73. retired joiner, of 28. Sibsey-street, Lancaster was recovered from the Preston- Kendal canal, at Slyne-with-Hest yesterday. Myra Jean James, aged 19. of 5 Elgin-street, Preston, suffered abrasions ...

... Healthy Canal Boats Not a single case of infectious disease had been found on board canal boat in Runcorn during the year. The canal boat inspector to the Euncorn Urban Council, in his annual report, stated that 549 canal boats were on the register. He ...

... CHESTER CANAL RESCUE Boatman Saves Three-years-old Boy On Wednesday evening. Albert Clowes, a canal boatman, of Birmingham, saved the life of a little boy. who had fallen into the canal. Terence Pinlay, the three-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Finlay. ...

... WOMEN AS BARGEES To Be Trained On Wigan Boat The Ministry of War Transport is asking for women volunteers to man barges on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. A training scheme will be introduced on Monday, when the first four volunteers are due to arrive ...

... WELSH WOMEN HELP The year 1944 was the most successful year that the Liverpool Welsh Appeal Committee of the Women’s Hospital, Catharine Street, has experienced! since 1937. They raised nearly £4OO chiefly by small subscriptions. and by various efforts ...

... Saved Girl From Canal Diving fully clothed into the Shropshire Union Canal at Chester, yesterday, Mr. Cyril Greenway, The Byatts, Overton, Frodsham, rescued Sylvia Jones, aged four, of Lyonstreet, Newtown, Chester. The child was unconscious, but after ...

... MELODRAMA FOR WOMEN A vivid and exciting melodrama, ” EXPERIMENT PERILOUS.” which tells Qf murder and attempted murder and the underlying motives, comes the Regal all next week. Hedy Lamarr. George Brent, and Paul Lukas are the stars of this unusual film ...