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... meeting was told that Foyle Tourism Association believed the Amelia Earhart air race from London to Eglinton airport would be an ideal way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s epic flight. The group regards the race as an essential investment ...
... BRIAN KENNEDY WORKSHOPS As part of its education pro- art workshops for children at gramme the Orchard Gallery the Amelia Earhart Centre, invited Belfast artist, Brian Ballyarnett. Mark Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts, 29 Lisnarea Avenue ...
... Famous Amelia Earhart, the famous aviatrix who landed at Derry's ourskirts, had a varied and interesting life. She was born in 1898 in Atchinson, Kansas. In her late teens, during the first World War, she was a military nurse in Canada. After the war ...
... Rural Council with a proposal that a plaque should be erected on the main road near Culmore indicating the spot where Miss Amelia Earhart completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic by a woman in May, 1932. DEATH (Late for Classification) EATON—At ...
... DERRY MARKS AVIATOR'’S BIRTH MAY 22, 1932, Amelia Earhart created aviation history as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Landing just outside Derry in “Cornshell” where the Amelia Earhart Centre now stands. Local men James McGeady and Dan ...
... RIALTO ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Telephone: 260516 Concert Venue — Seating Capacity 1,100 FOYLE VALLEY RAILWAY Telephone: 266234 AMELIA EARHART COTTAGE Telephone: 354040 Best wishes to the North West College of Technology on their new BTEC Performing Arts Course ...
... the plane landed. In these days of trans-; atlantic jets it is interesting to recall the hazards which early fliers like Amelia Earhart over-l came. Four hours out over the! Atlantic from Harbour Grace, | Newfoundland, the starting point of her epic flight ...
... MARY’S FLIGHT THROUGH AVIATION HISTORY WHEN AMELIA EARHART was asked in Derry if she'd like to return to the city by ‘plane, she replied: “’| think you had better get an airport here before you invite people to come here by air.” Derry did get its airport ...
... ~ Mayor . - Launches - » . ® 3 Ir hace 20K . CITY TRADERS are being asked to spousor * £2700 worth of prizes for the Amelia Earhart -+ race from the LeavesdonAerodrome in London + « tothe new Foyle Bridge next month. . The appeal was headed by from various ...
... EARHART RACE GETS GO-AHEAD It now seems certain that the Amelia Earhart Air Race will go ahead in 1986 after councillors on the Council’'s Amenities and Leisure Committee decided to accept a “trimmed”’ estimate of the cost of staging the event. It was ...
... “Deplorable”’ Attack The Mayor, Alderman William O’Connell described the attack on the Amelia Earhart monument at Ballyarnett as ‘“‘deplorable” when he attended the monthly meeting of Derry City Council on Tuesday. The Mayor said he did not know how the ...
... made on Sunday, 25th July, 1909, by the Frenchman, M. Bleriot. Almost 23 years later, on Saturday, 2llst May, 1932, Miss Amelia Earhart arrived at Culmore, near Derry, after making her memorable flight across the Atlantic. Five years earlier, on Saturday ...