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WOMEN IN GREEN W.V.S. film screened in Boston

... Green,” which told the story of the W.V.S. and was shown at the Odeon last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. During the Second World War, the W.V.S. kecame an integral part of welfare services, but there is still a job, if a less exciting one. for the W ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1210 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

men PRESTIGE NEVER HIGHER BUT MANY LEGION ‘SUBS’ ARE NOT PAID NATIONAL CHAIRMAN’S VISIT

... There were several hundred thousand war disabled—those from the First World War were “ pretty old” and those of the Second World War were mostly over 40. “1 don’t think it is very difficult to deduce from this that our job has to be done at least to ...

Published: Friday 27 January 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 662 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

A YEAR’S HOLIDAY FOR THE TIILLEYS

... joined the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment of the Canadian Army and saw service in Africa, Italy and Sicily during the second World War. “Kenneth came over to Horncastle and made a promise that his mother would come back and visit the town,” he continued ...

Published: Friday 24 February 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1064 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Quarrington’s Choice

... Quarrington Women’s Institute with a grim piece about the women inmates of a concentration camp in Germany during the Second World War. | The producer is Edith Scoft who is also producing for Sleaford Little Theatre in whose play she has a part. The rather ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

‘A GREAT BLESSING AND BOON’

... Occupational Therapist; and Mr. C. E. Tunstall, Chief Male Nurse. Lord Ancaster told his audience that during and after the Second World War he was the * viclim or beneficiary ” of occupational (Continued in next column) ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

CRAZY!

... at the end of next month, and then will fly the last 2,000 miles to Cairns. Vera Lynn, Sweetheart of the Forces in the Second World War, came to Lincolnshire on Friday, and during her flying visit—to open a new dress shop—she found time to visit the cathe_dral ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 528 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

CHIEF CLERK RETIRES Horncastle bank official

... to King's Lynn, Dereham and Norwich before coming to Horncastle in 1936 as cashier. He served in the R.A.F, during the Second World War, being invalided out, and is a past chairman and secretary of the Service Committee of the Horncastle branch of the British ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE INSTITUTES

... Malvern Girls’ ollege and the Lincoln High School. Her first husband, an Armz' officer, was killed in this country in the Second World War. She remarried in 1949, which was the year she joined Waddington W.I. ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

First Contest

... retired from band work when Bandmaster E. Beebe handed over ] the reins to the present conductor. ’- Mr. Walter Onyon. The Second|: World War, however, saw_ the| formation_of a Home Guard Band with members from the Heckington Band and players from the villages ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

“THE CURE FOR LOVE’ Wellingore Society in Lancashire comedy

... described by many who saw it. This Lancashire comedy tells of a young soldier’s return home during the latter part of the Second World War and his efforts to avoid the clutches of a_ scheming girl friend (who contrived to engage herself to him before he left ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1961
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 11 | Tags: none