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A VIVID reminder of the second World War is being acted out at Derby Playhouse Studio by the resident company

... A VIVID reminder of the second World War is being acted out at Derby Playhouse Studio by the resident company. The audience enters the darkened auditorium seemingly a blackout and the action begins with an effective air-raid, sounds being so realistic ...

Published: Thursday 30 April 1987
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

L s i i S v Nostalgic Bless ’Em All IN the early months of the Second World War jt

... L s i i S v Nostalgic Bless ’Em All IN the early months of the Second World War jt Tus and audience joining in “Land of Hope and was said t.hit. ular songs would not be written ~ Glory”. The society’s next presentation will be to match the aE(i)Xing melogies ...

Published: Thursday 18 May 1995
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 889 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

A FORMER Belper man, who distinguished himself by flying 102 operations during the Second World War, has died ..

... A FORMER Belper man, who distinguished himself by flying 102 operations during the Second World War, has died aged sixty nine. Leslie James Holland, who came originally from Bargate, volunteered for the RAF at the outbreak of war and was calied up in ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1987
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Blast from the past

... WORKMEN have found a World War Two bomb at Quarndon. They were clearing land at Church Road when they discovered the second world war mortar shell. Gerald Adams and John Berry had been clearing the land around a house at Church Road when they unearthed ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1992
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 185 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE SESSION

... THE SESSION WARSAW — SEPTEMBER 1939: A concert to commemorate the outbreak of the Second World War from Warsaw Opera House. Narrated by Auschwitz survivor Samuel Pisar, with documentary inserts about the Polish war experience. CRICKET. GRAND PIANO. ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 38 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Can you help us?

... YOU help us? asks City of Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Do you know anything about the Rolls-Royce Factory during the Second World War? The Derby Museum and Art Gallery are now preparing an exhibition of the work of the Derby artist Ernest Townsend (1885-1944) ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ohdlyv. The resultin

... by Queen Mary as a present for Ed ward VIII now in the possession of Prince Charles, commissions followed During the Second World War Mr Ber- esford was commis sioned to paint posthumous portraits of RAF V.C.s and he also painted the effects of bomb damage ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

‘CAVALIER SR Talk on pottery

... by Jenifer Giblin with s{ides and examples of the pottery that was made in Langley Mill before, during } and after the Second World War. The meeting will be at the Heanor Miners’ Welfare, Ilkeston Road, on Monday 17 January at 7.30 pm. Non-members welcome ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1994
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Looking for evacuees

... We have recently been reading a book called “Goodnight Mr Tom” and became interested in the plight of evacuees in the second world war. We would love to contact anyone living in the Belper/Allestree area who was evacuatecf during the war, who would talk ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 1993
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

into fire service Sir,

... of Derby, and for part of my history course, I am researching into the Derbyshire Auxiliary Fire Service during the Second World War; and in particular the role of women within that organisation. I would be very grateful if any person who has information ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1995
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

LETTERS to the Editor Caring for those who served

... advice rmvidcd by the British imbless Ex-Service Men's Association (BLESMA). The 50th Anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War reminds us all of the tremendous debt of gratitude that we owe to those who fought in two world wars and subsequent conflicts ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1989
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Horsley

... by Ada Otterwell. The squares are to be made into a cot cover. The competition for the next meeting in April will be a second world war souvenir. Dorothy Leake won the ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1993
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 19 | Tags: none