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Still no memorial to Amelia Earhart

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1972
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

‘l FLEW FROM- AMERICA”

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1972
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

TODAYS RADIO

... Something Simple; Command Performance. 10 Sports Desk; Words and Music. 11 Ruth Cubbin; News. It's Your Line. 8.30 Search for Amelia Earhart. 9.30 Kaleidoscope. 10 News; Book. 11 Finance; Parliament. 11.30 News. ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1976
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

IMPROVING TOURISM

... for the summer season at short notice. Projects planned include the erection of a monument to Commemorate the landing of Amelia Earhart on the outskirts of Londonderry after her historic trans-atlantic flight in the early years of aviation; the erection ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1975
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

Radio 4

... Prayer for the Day. 6.45, Today. 8.45, Yesterday in Parliament. 9.0, as Radio Ulster. 11.0, News. 11.5, The Search for Amelia Earhart. 12.0, News. 12.2 p.m., Your and Yours. 12.27, Oh, Get On With It! 12.55, as Radio Ulster. 3.0, News. 3.5, as Radio S ...

Published: Friday 16 April 1976
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 161 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

HISTORIC MOMENTS IN DERRY'S HISTOR

... Derry’s history. The top or was taken at a reception in th Guildhall in May, 1932, to th famous American woma flyer, Miss Amelia Earhart after she had landed a Gallagher’s fieid, Steelstow: Road, after a solo cross Atlantic flight. Second from the¢ left is ...

Published: Friday 24 August 1979
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 215 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MAYOR APPEALS FOR CONCERTED TOURISM DRIVE

... maps of the ity centre, picnic lay-bys, tc., and to the proposed erection of commemorative plaques to mark the spot where Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from America, landed in 1932. ...

Published: Tuesday 06 July 1976
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Children in Shantallow-Ballyarnett Tree-Planting Scheme

... they have planted. In addition to naming trees after Eliza Ferguson and David Brown, the pupils have named trees after Amelia Earhart, the first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic, who landed her plane at Ballyarnett; Bogs Leigh, after an area of ...

Published: Friday 17 March 1978
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MAKING DERRY A PLEASANT PLACE

... operated by the Association during the tourist season. Additionally there are plans to commemorate the landing by Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman pilot to fly the Atlantic from west to east, landing near Culmore Road in 1932. Plans have also been ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1976
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 472 | Page: 54 | Tags: none

%/ZZW@/%/J For more than 60 years Mr. Alex Davis worked loyally in the Londonderry firm of William Adair and Sons,

... commanded the Italian flight of flying boats which flew to America for the world’s fair and on route landed on the Foyle. When Amelia Earhart who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from west to east, landed in a field off Culmore Road it was Alex ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1976
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 541 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Tourist Board Gets List Of Derry Conference Facilities

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 17 June 1975
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 686 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AMELIA EARHART'S DERRY LANDING

... AMELIA EARHART'S DERRY LANDING Sir — I wonder if any of your readers could help me. I have an American friend who would like newspapers, or photographs, or newspaper clippings concerning Amelia Earhart's landing in Ireland (in farmer Gallagher’s field) ...

Published: Friday 11 August 1978
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 15 | Tags: none