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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 OF CANAL

... WOMEN OF CANAL £57.007 FOR WAR OFFICE AM) ADMIRALTY. Ottawa, Tuesday. His Hoppa Highness the Dothan of Coo:Sone W1=04112016 that the women of Canada have d £57,000 for the ore of the British War Ofbee Thutv seven thousand pounds Was handed over to the ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1914
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Post
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

26 WOMEN IN CANAL

... 26 WOMEN IN CANAL. MOTOR COACH'S PLUNGE NEAR MANCHESTER. RESCUES THROUGH SMASHED (WINDOWS. , n *nnual picnic the Peak district, Saturday, were pi unired into the Bridgewater Canal. Patncroft, near Manchester, when their motor-coach skidded Oai road. them ...

45 WOMEN IN CANAL

... 45 WOMEN IN CANAL LORRY FATALITY AT NIEUPORT: BODIES RECOVERED. Brussels, Thursday.—A motorlorry carrying 45 female workers dashed into the canal yesterday at Nieuport.. Up to last night 12 bodies had been recovered.—Reuter. ...

Published: Thursday 24 July 1919
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 33 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WOMEN AS CANAL WORKERS

... WOMEN AS CANAL WORKERS. MR GEORGE SMITH, OF COALVILLE, BEFORE THE LABOR COMMISSION, Mr.J. Abbolt, & Midland Railway signalman, attended before the Commission yesterday, but s hecould only speak as to the other grades of the service, and had nothing to ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1892
Newspaper: Morning Leader
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

26 WOMEN IN CANAL

... 26 WOMEN IN CANAL. A MOTOR COACH'S PILUiNGE NEAR MANCHESTER. RESCUES THROUGH SMASHED WINDOWS. Twenty-six women, on annual picnic to the Peak district, on Saturday, were plunged into the Bridgewater Canal, Patricroft, near Manchester, when their motor-coach ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1931
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

WOMEN ON CANAL BOATS

... WOMEN CANAL BOATS SIHD. MACLEAN CRITICIZED FOX WANT OF CHIVALRY During the discussion on the Canal Boats Bill in the -Standing Committee of the House of Commons yesterday, a new clause was added at the instance of the promoters, prohibiting the carrying ...

Published: Friday 21 March 1930
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Attacker pushes women in canal

... Attacker pushes women in canal Two women in their 70s were knocked into a canal when a man demanded their handbags. They were pushed in after they refused to hand them over. The women were confronted by a man carrying a stick as they took an ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1980
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WOMEN FROM CANAL LOCK

... WOMEN FROM CANAL LOCK tell you I wtll go home and do murder, and then myself in.” The magistrates adhered to their decision, and the chairman requested a clergyman, who had spoken for the boy, to take the woman outside and console her. ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 1933
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 3 | Tags: none