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WOMEN CANAL WORKERS

... effort to increase the use of canals for the carriage of goods in the Birmingham area and elsewhere. The principal difficulty had been the shortage of labour for canal wharves and crews, but women had been trained and several women crews were already at work ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 425 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WOMEN CANAL CREWS MAN EXPRESSES”

... WOMEN CANAL CREWS MAN EXPRESSES” NOEL BAKER (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport) told Mr. Thorne (Lab., Plaistow) in the Commons to-day that the through journey between London and Birmingham. is being made by narrow canal boats ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1944
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 80 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Women injured by canal

... Women injured by canal A WOMAN suffered head injuries in an axe attack on a Leamington canal boat. The incident happened in the early hours of Thursday morning when two women boarded the boat, adjacent to the Kwiksave car park in Clemens Street, where ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1993
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MORE BRITISH WOMEN LEAVE CANAL ZONE PLANES of the R.A.F. to-day began an airh:L of women and children trom the

... MORE BRITISH WOMEN LEAVE CANAL ZONE PLANES of the R.A.F. to-day began an airh:L of women and children trom the Suez Canal Zone to Britain. Four Hast.ng., transporLs took off with 107 wetnen and clrildren from the fant:les. of R.A.F. men ~ ,e rring there ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1951
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 236 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIRE-BRICK TRADE CRISIS THE LA8T-F0R-EVEB DAYS Household Gods Surviving WOMEN SMOKERS CANAL DOUBLE TRACEDY ..

... FIRE-BRICK TRADE CRISIS THE LA8T-F0R-EVEB DAYS Household Gods Surviving WOMEN SMOKERS CANAL DOUBLE TRACEDY Result of Secretary MYTH Advanced Wages Claim at Stourbridge Walsall While Bathing RESCUERS COMMENDED SHAKESPEARE & POLITICS ladies’ clubs the idea ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1913
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 557 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FEATURES Aviation Notes Radio and T V Programmes 3 To the Editor Mainly for Women 4 Panama Canal of Date

... FEATURES Aviation Notes Radio and T V Programmes 3 To the Editor Mainly for Women 4 Panama Canal of Date Communist Policy and the World Outgook - 6 Midland Diary 6 Letter 6 Apical's+, Art-11 Ger= at New Year Finandal - lO Hunting Sport Crossword ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 45 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

7 MEN AND WOMEN WEEP AT CANAL VICTIM’S FUNERAL EVENING DESPATCH SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 1938 GRAVESIDE CROWD’S ..

... 7 MEN AND WOMEN WEEP AT CANAL VICTIM’S FUNERAL EVENING DESPATCH SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 1938 GRAVESIDE CROWD’S EMOTION POLICE CONTROL IN CEMETERY YOUNG SON UNAWARE TRAGEDY STILL OF and women wept unashamedly to-day at funeral of Mrs Eliza Jane Worton 25-year-old ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1936
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2482 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Aviation Notes 3 Radio and T V Programme! 3

... Aviation Notes 3 Radio and T V Programme! 3 To the Editor . Mainly for Women Panama Canal . 3 and 6 is Out of Date Communist Polley and the World OutlOok Midland Diary London Letter Agriculture Portuguese Art—ll Germany's New Year Optimism Floinclal ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 47 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

FEATURES

... FEATURES Aviation Notes 3 Radio and T V Programmes 3 To the Editor Mainly for Women . Panama Canal is Out of Date Communist Policy and the World Outlook Midland Diary London Letter Agriculture Portuguese Art-111 Germany's New Year Optimism Financial ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 47 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SAN ON WOMEN SUGGESTED

... SAN ON WOMEN SUGGESTED Ths position is deplorable. It means that as the general education of the country advances the gap between the ordinary child and the canal-boat child is widened. Mr. Simpson suggested that one way of dealing with the problem would ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1936
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOME SERVICE

... Gramophone. 9.0: 15.8.C. Midland Orchestra, with Owen Brannigan (bass). 9.40: ‘'Starlight”' (recording). 9.55: Talk about women canal workers. 10.5: News commentary for schools. 10.15: Time and religious service. 10.30: Debroy Somers Band 11.0: For schools ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 288 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Bodies found

... Bodies found Police recovered the bodies of two women from a canal at Roscomnor Lane. Penkridge, near Stafford yester• day. They are believed to have been an elderly woman and her muddle aged daughter. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1970
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 34 | Page: 32 | Tags: none