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BOATMEN'S GRIM TASK

... BOATMEN'S GRIM TASK. Mr. Tomlinson asked dif any communication had been received in reference to the following resolution passed by the Council : = That this Council, Tecognising the limportance of the services rendered to the community by boaitmen who ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 151 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

WEDNESDAY. A FINE SfEA TRIP

... Dinorwic and Carnarvon Castle and town, the steamer then shapes her course to the Island of Saints, or Bardsey Island, where boatmen will be in attendance to convey passengers ashore at a nominal charge to mspect this historie islafid. On the return journey ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1910
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 211 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FIVE KILLED ON GREAT ORME. YOUTH FALLS 50 FEET INTO THE SEA

... His head struck a rock, and he died almost imgediately, having fractured his skull. His body was recovered from the sea by boatmen and landed at the jetty in the presence of a large crowd of visitors. The tragedy was the sequel to a thrilling adventure ...

WHY DO WE SING?

... accompany it by eome sort of song; witness those lovely sea-chanties of old-time sailors, the toofamous “Song of the Volga Boatmen,” and the beloved ¢ Tipperary ' of our marching soldier. I have even known 2 dentist carry on his hateful ministrations while ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1928
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 253 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

CANAL FATALITY AT RISHTON. l THE POLICE COURTS. BOATMAN KILLED BY COTTON BALE. QUESTIONS AT THE INQUEST

... years, and at this pamticu- Tar mill many @ time. He had mever complained about the engine being driven tco fast, but other boatmen thad. Asked if he had ever known a bale of cotton to fall before, witness waid, ‘ Miany a time.” Ip reply to Mir. Radcliffe ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1128 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

NEW GRAMOPHONE RECORDS. H.M.Y

... actually did so about the time he came into contact with the great Russian writer Maxim Gorky. He .sings the famous Volga Boatmen song with “that ‘“ something more ”” that none but the man with experience can give. His newly issued record is marvellous ...

Published: Tuesday 10 April 1928
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 474 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GIRL WHO SAW HER FATHER’S “GHOST.”

... or heand of him. Yesterday morning the body of a man was found floeting in the canal near Aspen Valley, Oswaldtwistle, by boatmen. The police were cominunicated with, and the body, which was afterwards identified as that: of Mareden, was recovered. The ...

Published: Tuesday 17 April 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 509 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Dramatic Entertainment at St._ James's

... quandary as to whom to choose for the queen, hits on the lidea of testing the girls by spreading the l alarm that some unruly boatmen had Tun riot in the house, with the anticipated result that all except one of them were terrorstricken. But an unlooked-for ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1910
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 658 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 10 March 1928
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 539 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

A RAWTENSTALIL WILL

... clothes caught in the gpikes, and there he hung, head downwards, for three hours over a ’ rrecipice of 40ft. until geen by two boatmen, who climbed up and released him from his perilous position. He was uhconscious. ~ Commander Peary was the guest at a dinner ...

5 Half-hour ordeal You are invited when a councillor THE OBSERVER Friday 8 June 1 990 TO OUR Open was

... work of reference He lived on the canal on a boat named Pluto for five years and in his book he describes the lives of the boatmen and their families and the effects of the canal on the many towns and communities it passed through during its construction ...