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DROWNING FATALITY

... FATALITY. The body of a well.dressed wan, apparently between the age of 45 and 50, was found in the canal on Monday by two boatmen, between Stanton Gate and Sandiacre. The decensed, who has not been identified, had £3 in his possession, a gold watch, and ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1910
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DROWNING ACCIDENTS

... at Weymouth on Saturday. The boat in which he was rowin%‘ witi four other ym:;g men was capsized. The others were Tesc by boatmen. i s ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1912
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SEE WINDOWS!

... he went home and put on his best clothes. He was not again seen alive. The body was found by a visitor, who informed the boatmen, and they got it out of the water. ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1911
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ATTACK ON SUEZ CANAL. GERMAN OFFICER'S WHITE FLAG

... boat was riddled and sank: it was then that I was wounded. I landed with two boatmen and a third man, all that was left of my half company. Finally, T and one of the boatmen alone survived, and then I surrendered to some Indian troops. A German major ...

Published: Friday 12 February 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HEANOR

... HEANOR. Flag Day. Flag day in the Heanor district on Saturday on behalf of the Incorporated Seamen’s and Boatmen’s Society (Sailors’ Day) resulted in the sum of £ll ss. being realised. Mr, Clarince Bassford was responsible for the organisation arrangement ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1931
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRAVERY REWARDED

... George Em‘r”, Abraham Wilder, Shaw Lnngle b and Thomas Vincent Emery, finiurmen, an Z) Edward Porter and James Fox, Coastguard boatmen, all of Leigh, for having gallantly rescued from drowning, off the Jenkin Buoy, three men belongixfi: the barge Walter Little ...

Published: Friday 23 April 1880
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRINCE OF WALES AND THE : LIFE-BOATS

... people ‘of the British Isles, and 1 think, too, in the | respect and gratitude of other natioms . | We want our life-boatmen to know what we think of them, which is that their service and self-sacrifice for ships in distress are an example of all ...

Published: Thursday 28 June 1934
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 184 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POETRY. TWO JOURNEYS. “l;ooa s journey far away,” ‘e said—and he stooped and kissed me then« Over the ocean for

... is never a land so fair as this.” Agnin I stood by my husbend's side. Igo on a journey, sweet, to-day ; Over the river the boatmen &‘u‘h— Good-bye ; I shall linger away.” ikt , &8 i “Hoennnothny.htold-r::n. . There is never a land so fair as this.” But ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1881
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 137 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FISHERMEN IN THE NORTH SEA

... and Germany vln’ for its primary object the prevention of those acts of violence on the part of British fishermen which the boatmen of the North Sea not infrequently, it is said, have to complain of. For this purpose it is agreed that only fishermen of German ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1880
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MORAL COURAGE

... been breathed into me human ear,” aed again ‘ the r emark concerning William 111., that his :fience was like that of Butch boatmen om a w.tch canal, striving hard against an adverse eddy, often swept back, but never cessing to pull and contend if with the ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1901
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TWO MINUTES SILENCE

... performed the induction ceremony and afterwards delivered a appropriate address to a large congrega.io ’:. ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1925
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 1 | Tags: none