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... again and the universal cloche was at last demodee. The levelling of fashion, begun in the First, continued during the Second World War. Millions poured into war factories and the Forces, and uni forms had priority over civilian clothing, yet the families ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 993 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

A LETTER FROM MAYFAIR

... feminists in the social, artistic and theatrical worlds to cooperate, no acclaimed new leader for women has emerged since the second world war programme began in 1940. When I talked with her I had the impression that she had in mind a feminine counterpart of Winston ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1121 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Growth Of Population

... Big estates were broken up, the lland developed, and at the 1911 census the population had grown to 49,000. As in the second world war, the upward trend was slowed down durfn; 1914-18, the fi&ru at the 1921 census being 52,607. ’ Between the wars housing ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Streatham News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TRUTH

... Holmsen. (Barrie. 155.) Those who remember Tahiti in the years between the wars must often have wondered how much the second world war, which encroached so dangerously on the South Seas, has left of the charm of the island and its inhabitants. Mr. Hohnsen ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1357 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

THOMAS ROWLANDSON: Bernard Falk Rights Some Misconceptions

... Gollancz. 21s.) is a valuable factual-record, and a heart-breaking one at that, of the plight of children during the Second World War. The author, Dorothy Macardle, begins by describing the type of education imposed on the youth of Germany by the Hitler ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 886 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Ligbts in Good Order

... transferred to the Air Ministry wnere he has worked in the clerical, executive, and administrative grades. During the second world war he was a financial adviser to the R.A.F. in Montreal. and he was also in Canada for a short time in connection with the ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1950
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 271 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MR. W. GLOVER

... Royal Field Artillery, and saw service in Italy. France and Belgium. He was in the Civil Defence in London during the second world war. The funeral took place at Manor Park cemetery. Forest Gate. on Monday. Mourners present: Mrs. F. B. Glovers widow; Mr ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1950
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 188 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GOOD MIXTURE FOR NEXT WEEK

... NEXT WEEK ikTEW pictures to suit most Al tastes come to local cinemas next week, two of them flavouring strongly of the second world war. One of them. the American East Of The Rising Sim. is set in Japane:2e-occupied Malaya and vividly describes the attempt ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1950
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 852 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... for the Acton Boys’ Holiday Camp and Branch Representative on the Acton Hospital Fete Committee At the outbreak of the second World War the Acton Branch closed down and transferred to Ealing Branch Mr Orford joined the Special Constabulary and at one time ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3310 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Inspiring Story .Told by Mr. Berwick Sayers

... concise, informative, descriptive writing. with each of them will feel that they are part of history. For Crozdon and the Second World War is as much of true history as, to take our cue from the ! Introduction, Gibbon's Decline land Fall of the Roman Empire ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Norwood News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 234 | Page: 7 | Tags: none