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... Wednesday, it gave four children a half-hour flight in a light aircraft piloted by Joyce Bishop, of Portstewart, who won the Amelia Earhart air Race. The children were the four top moneyraisers during the sponsored walk and they were duly rewarded for their ...
... Earhart scheme won top tourism Londonderry City Council won a Northern Irelnad Tourist Board award for the Amelia Earhart anniversary celebrations staged in the cityinMay. The celebrations, which included the erection of a memorial where Miss Earhart ...
... Certificates of Commendation, for the part both organisations paid in the 50th anniversary celebrations of the landing of Amelia Earhart after her trans-Atlantic flight. Also included is Mr. J R. Harris, the Head of British Airways’ Seles and Cargo Operation ...
... ment scheme and is being grant aided by the Department of the Environment. Phase one, which included the erection of the Amelia Earhart Monument has already been completed. In the near future, work should be able to commence on the central area of the proposed ...
... over the past Themes range from the lives of Patrick and Colmcille to more recent historical events such as the visits of Amelia Earhart and Balbao. It is also spiced with other articles of local interest, famous characters and local crafts. Sources of material ...
... singer-songwriter Phi 6. Miss Joyce Bishop, of Portstewart, won the London to Londonderry air race, heid as part of the Amelia Earhart celebrations. 7. Mr. Semuel Craig, who retired as Govemor of the Apprentice Boys of Londonderry, was presented with a ...
... Hunniford, Phil Coulter and Faith Brown breeze along to the Guildhall for a recording of her TV programme. A memorial to Amelia Earhart, white marble, aluminium and stainless steel, which played tunes when the wind blew, was erected in a field near Culmore ...
... found. On Saturday, May 21, 1932, Derry briefly became the centre of world attention when 33-years-old American air woman, Amelia Earhart, landed at the Gallagher family farm in Ballyarnett, having completed the first-ever solo flight across the Atlantic by ...
... the Housing Executive before Christmas, 1981, The Irish Society presented a cheque for £3,000 towards the‘ cost of the Amelia Earhart Memorial race to be held in May. A vote of no confidence in the Mayor, Councillor Joe Fegan, proposed by the D.U.P, was ...