HULL SALVAGE CLAIM STORY OF GREAT PETROL BLAZE A graphic story of efforts to save a blazing barge in the River Trent, after the skipper had been drowned, with firemen running about on the bank unable to get to the vessel, was told at Hull County Court to-day. It was in a case under Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Court, in which masters and crews of the motor barge Direct and the lighter Rosa Mary, ... »
LINSKILL.—December 21st, 1916, died through accident, in hospital in France. Sergeant Walter, A.S.C., beloved husband of Alice Linskill, 12, Lonsdale-street, aged 45 years. –From his sorrowing wife and children. »
The interment took place at Hessle Cemetery on Saturday of Mr Albert Shearsmith, of Westbourne-avenue, Hessle. Mr Shearsmith, who was 61, was a well known local gardener. For many years he was a member of the Hessle and District Chrysanthemum Society and was at one time the secretary of the Ferriby Horticultural Society. The service was conducted by the Plymouth Brethren. The chief mourners were: ... »
Kingston Wesleyan Chapel was the scene recently of a pretty wedding, the parties being Miss Ida Burton, second daughter of Mr and Mrs J. H. Burton, of Brindley-street, East Park, and Lieut. E. Ford, R.N.R., the second son of Capt. and Mrs W. Ford, of Cottingham-road. The Rev R. A. Loten officiated. The bride looked charming in a gown of ivory silk, with an over dress of Brussels silk and taffeta, ... »
Group Captain J. B. Voyce A holder of the much coveted Pathfinder Wings, Group-Capt. John Bell Voyce, R.A.F., has been awarded a bar to his D.F.C. after the completion of his second tour of “ops.” The younger son of Mr and Mrs E. Bell Voyce, of Roundhay, Leeds, he was married in Canada, in 1941, to Miss Jean Ford, only daughter of Capt. E. Ford, R.D., R.N.R., and Mrs Ford, of Strathmor... »
The wedding took place at Hessle Wesley Church of Lt. Thomas Ford Beecroft, R.A., only son of Mr and Mrs C. S. Beecroft, 166, Westbourne-ave., Hull, and Miss Jean Margaret Barlow, only daughter of Mrs and the late Mr H H. Barlow, Glenholme, Swanland-road, Hessle. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr E H. Barlow, wore a gown of white Nottingham lace with veil held by an orange blossom a... »
Sec.-Lt. Thomas Ford-Beecroft, only son of Mr and Mrs C. S. Beecroft, of 166, Westbourne-ave., Hull, who was posted “missing” in Malaya during February, is now known to be a prisoner of war. Educated at the Boulevard Secondary School, 2nd-Lieut, Beecroft was later a member of the staff of the Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd., of High-st., Hull, and in December, 1939, he joined the Royal Art... »
BEECROFT—FORD.—On Aug. 1, 1918 at All Saints’, Ferriby, Lieut. Charles Stewart Beecroft, R.N.R., to Eva Ford. Present address: 166, Westbourne-av. »
MARRIAGE OF MR W. S. HEPTON AND MISS GLADYS BUTTERY The wedding took place on Wednesday, at St. Matthew’s Church, Boulevard, of Mr and Mrs W. S. Hepton, second son of Mr and Mrs E. S. Hepton, St. Matthew-street. Hull, and Mrs Gladys Buttery, only daughter of Mr and Mrs A. E. Buttery, Gypsyville. The bride, who wore a dress of ivory chiffon velvet and silver bridal veil and orange blossom, ha... »
How Gruesome Murders Activated the Strangest Left-Wing Campaign of All Time Mr. Segerdal resides in Glendale, California, where he is a writer. In the late nineteenth century, despite fabulous wealth, gracious living, and an industrial revolution that had reached the far corners of her empire, Britain was also an island of social unrest. Working-class discontent with poverty and disease was fuelin... »