... O°D. Promotions six-hour non-stop jamboree at BSrandywell Road Grounds to-morrow. The group's latest hit, “The Ballad of Amelia Earhart,” which is climbing the charts fast, will be performed live in the oity for the first time and Derry's close association ...

... No Amelia Earhart plaque The Northern Ireland Tourist Board has informed Londonderry Rural District Council about difficulties regarding the erection of a commemorative plaque to Miss Amelia Earhart who landed her plane near the city after flying solo ...

... 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 ...

... written to Londonderry Rural Council suggesting a site for the proposed plaque to be erected to mark the place where Miss Amelia Earhart landed in May, 1932, after her record breaking flight from Newfoundland in the pioneer days of trans-Atlantic aviation ...

... 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 ...

... he was 16 he had his polit's licence. “I was born and raised in the flying crowd,” he said. “My father was a friend of Amelia Earhart and he and I used to fly all over the south-west in an old Command - Air biplane.” He flew in the Second World War, after ...

... occasions in the city down to the reception to General Balbo on the arrival of the Mtalian air squadron in the Lough and of Amelia Earhart’s landing near Culmore from the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic. And there are gl;xmesolpohfiml(msim All ...

... Amelia Earhart is ‘alive in America’ Amelia Earhart, the woman pilot who flew to Northern Ireland in May, 1932, and who disappeared with her plape over the Pacific in 1937, is alive and at present lving in America, according to two former American air ...

... Still no memorial to Amelia Earhart The 40th anniversary of the epic feat of Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman aviator to conquer the Atlantic in one hop, whose histroy-making flight ended almost at a country cottage doorstep near Londonderry, has ...

... asked the tall fair, closecropped young woman with the blackened face. ‘“Who are you,”” got the stunning answer “I‘m, Amelia Earhart, and-I flew from America.” But still there is no memorial to this historic event and nothing to ‘“‘Mark the o:rot. There ...

... short Earhart plaque wanted A CALL has been made for the erection of a plaque to commemorate the lauding near Culmore of Amelia Earhart, the first trans- Atlantic woman solo pilot. The suggestion comes from the Foyle Tourism Association. It would like the ...

... adjacent to the Guildhall. The Association is anxious to have a plaque erected at or near the site of the landing place of Amelia Earhart, the first trans-Atlantic woman solo pilot, who touched down adjacent to the Culmore Road. A call is made for the erection ...