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Milward 2
Milward 1
2 scrap books full of lovely stuff
also some loose contents, leaflets etc.
and some not so lovely stuff about flooding and the 'Troubles'
but it's all information :)
&
The War Illustrated September 30th, 1939

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The secret war that saved the honour of France, 1940 (click on image 1 above to read more on this story)
2) 'Skip' gets stuck New York (click on image 2 above to read more on this story) - 'Mr. Boat Race' passes the 40 year mark, John Snagge (click on image 2 above to read more on this story)
3) We'll join you, said the chicks to a fox (click on image 3 above to read more on this story)
4) Let's forget all that cat and mouse nonsense (click on image 4 above to read more on this story)
5) Ambridge's own shopkeeper, Sid Perks, at his customers' service. The Archers (click on image 5 above for photo) - Frank Windsor and Gay Hamilton, Barlow (click on image 5 above for more info and photo) - Dad's Army (click on image 5 above for photo) - Violet Carson (click on image 5 above for photo and image 5b for info)
6) Anne Cullen and Philip Morant, The Archers (click on image 6 above for photo) - Royal Family, An Historic Documentary Film (click on image 6 above for photo and details) - The Sunday Express December 6th 1970 - Dr. Finlays Casebook (click on image 6 above for photo and details)
7 & 8) Daily Express, Wednesday March 19th 1969 - Yesterday was Lifeboat Day - Longhope Lifeboat Tragedy, Lives Lost were - Coxswain Dan Kirkpatrick (60), his two married sons Raymond (29) and Jack (26); Robert Johnston, his two sons Jimmy (34) and Robert (31); James Swanson (59), Eric McFadyen (24) (click on images 7 & 8 above for photos and full story)

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The Shell House Raid: a justifiable risk? 1945 R.A.F. (click on images 1 & 2 above for photos and full story)
3) The Steinbeck Inheritance (click on image 3 above for photo and full story)
4, 5, 6 & 7) Telemark 1943 (click on images 4, 5, 6 & 7 above for photos and full story)
8) Gogarty's House - Arthur the famous cat-food cat - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (click on image 8 above for photos and details)
9) The Irish Times, Monday, August 16th 1971 - An Irishwoman's Diary (click on image 9 above for photo and story)

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Belfast Telegraph, Saturday July 22nd, 1972 - Boy Who Died Glynn Steven Parker - Mother Who Tried to Save Family, Margaret O'Hare, 37 Balmoral Avenue - Profiles of Tragedy: Oxford Street Bus Station, Bob Bishop, William Kenneth Crothers, Parker Street, off Newtownards Road (click on image 1 above for photos and stories)
2-9) Belfast Telegraph, Saturday July 22nd, 1972 - Blast at Nine Shops: Maureen Walker, Yvonne McBride, Bridgetta Murray, Antrim Road; Sergeant Philip John Price, 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards; Billy Irvine, Glenallen Street; Jack Gibson, Ballyalgin, Crossgar; David Harmin, baby Alan Jack (click on images 2-9 above for photos and more details)

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The Irish Press, Friday, March 12th, 1971 - Ligoniel, 3 British Soldiers John McCaig (17), his brother Joseph (18) and Dougald McCaughy (23) (click on image 1 above for photos and details)
2) Daily Express, Saturday September 9th, 1972 - Golden Welcome, Mary Peters (click on image 2 above for photo and details)
3, 4, & 5) The Story of Captain Scott's fated Antarctic Expedition (click on images 3, 4, & 5 above for photos and details)
6) Church of Ireland Gazette, Friday April 3rd, 1964 - Recollections of "down town" Dublin in the 20s by Archdeacon John Tobias (click on image 6 above for photo and full story)
7, 8) The Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo (click on images 7 & 8 above for photos and details)
9) Ambleside Westmoreland, The quaint Bridge House is a feature of Ambleside, a market town and tourist centre, standing at the northern end of Windermere. Bear by is Rydal Mount, for many years the home of the poet Wordsworth (click on image 9 above for photo)

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The Lost Killers of Amazonia by Adrian Cowell (click on images 1 & 2 above for photos and full story)
3, 4, 5) cartoons

SCRAPBOOK 2

Aileen Milward, Station House, Sutton, Co. Dublin, 10th January 1953

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Evening Herald, Friday, January 2nd, 1953 - All His Own Work - Conductor William Rankin, Howth
2) Christmas Eve in O'Connell Street - 150 Years Ago, From The Dispatch of May 30, 1802, A few days since David Jones and Ann Roberts were married at St. Dunstan's Church in the East. They had been old shipmates on board La Seine frigate, on the West India station, during most part of the war; when the lady bore a most conspicuous part in the different situations which that frigate was successfully engaged in against the enemy. She was always an attendant upon the sick and wounded in the surgeon's department, and had attended upon this man in his wounded state. An attachment took place, which ended in their union. One of them is a native of Ireland, the other of Wales. - Some other small articles. (click on image 2 above for more details)
3) Reveille for the Weekend, October 10th, 11th, 12th 1952 - £18 an hour, Mari Blanchard
4) Queens Portrait typed by Dennis Collins, Loretto Drive, Upton, Birkenhead - Howth Fishing Fleet in harbour to discharge its catch - Sparrow killed the cat! - Wednesday February 25th, 1953, Just One Year Old, King Ahmed Fuad II (click on image 4 above for photos and details)
5) Your Birthday (Aileen) November 5th - Indignant Monkeys! - Of Love and Ingenuity, Peggy and Patricia Hunt, Father Sydney and Mother Eleanor. - Monday February 15th, 1954. Bonfires for her baby, Countess of Dalkeith - Tom Jenkins (click on image 5 above for photos and more information)
6) Evening Herald, Friday, September 5th, 1947 - Dubliners Take to Bicycles as Result of Transport Strike (click on image 6 above for photo)
7) David Viscount Lascelles - Mr. J. H. Nash and Miss D. Sidford, The wedding has taken place in Howth Parish Church of Mr. John Heddle Nash, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Heddle Nash, Petts Wood, Kent, and Miss Dulcie Sidford, daughter of the late Mr. Dermot R. Sidford and of Mrs. A. Sidford, Avalon, Sutton, Co. Dublin. The Rev. H. Armstrong officiated. The bride, who was given away by her uncle, Mr. L. Montgomery, wore a classical gown of ivory brocade with a tulle veil and a headdress of tulle and orange blossom; she carried a bouquet of mixed white flowers. Mrs. C. B. McConnell was matron-of-honour. She wore a gold satin-brocade classical dress and carried a bouquet of gold roses. Mr. David Nash was best man and the ushers were Mr. C. B. McConnell and Mr. Basil Stuart. After a reception in the Cliff Hotel, Howth, Mr. and Mrs. John Heddle Nash left for the West - Death of Lady Yarrow, The death has occurred of Eleanor, Lady Yarrow, at Dalguise, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. She was the daughter of Mr. M. Goodwin Barnes, Foxley, Bishop's Stortfort, Herts, and was in her eighty-third year. English by birth, Lady Yarrow was Irish by adoption, citizenship and residence. With her husband, Sir Alfred Yarrow, F.R.S., the noted scientist, inventor, ship-builder and philanthropist, she spent a holiday in Ireland every year. After her husband's death she settled in this country, first in West Cork, and later, at Journey's End, Baily, Howth, where she resided until five or six years ago, when she went to live with her friends, Dr. and Mrs. Colm A. McDonnell, at Dalguise. Forty years ago, Lady Yarrow was a heroic fighter in the campaign for woman suffrage and underwent many hardships for that cause. She was a convinced anti-Partitionist. She was a writer and her published works include a biography of her husband and a series of sketches about canoeing, which was formerly one of her hobbies. Lady Yarrow was also a gifted pianist and studied under Paderewski. She was received into the Church at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, in 1940. Senator Margaret M. Pearse and Mr. Frank Fahy, T.D., then Ceann Comhairle, were her sponsors. She became a Tertiary of St. Francis. Lady Yarrow is survived by her sister, Mrs. C. Cooke; her step-daughter, the Viscountess Dawson of Penn; her step-son, Sir Harold Edgar Yarrow, Bart., Craigend Castle, Stirlingshire, Scotland, and by many nephews and nieces (click on image 7 above for photo) - The Windsor car goes for £455. A 16-year-old Buick CUL421, which was owned by the Duke of Windsor when he was King, was sold for £455 at a London auction yesterday. It was described as a "car of historical value" and a "car of memories"
8) Dublin, Tuesday, October 29th, 1946 - Year's Biggest Social Event, The wedding of the Hon. Patricia Mountbatten, daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, and Captain the Lord Brabourne, at Romsey, Hampshire, on Saturday, was the biggest social event of the year in Great Britain. This family wedding group includes (back row) the Duchess of Kent, Viscount Mountbatten, the bridegroom, H.M. the King, Lady Mountbatten, and Squadron-Leader Charles Harris St. John (best man). Also in the picture are the bride, the Queen, and the four bridesmaids - Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret Rose, Princess Alexandra of Kent and the Hon. Pamela Mountbatten (click on image 8 above for photo) - Dublin Evening Mail, Thursday, October 1st, 1953, Death of B.B.C. Actor, Robert Mawdesley, better known to millions of radio listeners as Walter Gabriel, the cranky, lovable old character in "The Archers" died last night. He had been in the Dedancey hospital, Cheltenham, since July. Mawdesley, 53, was a Cambridge M.A. He meant to be a doctor, but became an actor instead and was an expert in dialect parts. - Dad made them happy, When a car hit Lucy the dachshund and made her hind legs for ever lame, it was a tragedy not only for her but for two-year-old Frankie, Lucy's best pal. (click on image 8 above for photo and full story)
9) Poteen: This is why sales are rising, A bottle is 13s., half the price of whiskey, These nights Civic Guards are trudging up the mountains and out across the bogs in search of moonshiners - the nearest police operation there is in Ireland to catching moonbeams. But poteen, the ancient brew of the moonshiners, holds no magic for the guards, and it is a drink that is not served in the best Dublin saloons. (click on image 9 above for photos and full story)

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Sunday Independent, Dublin, Sunday, June 21st, 1953 - Guests watching the bridal party leaving Howth Parish Church yesterday, after the marriage of Mr. Robert Perry, 32 Mount Pleasant Avenue and Miss Joyce Lingard, Kilbarrack, Sutton. Party included: Groomsmen, Messrs. John Richardson, George Bowie, George Geoffrey, and bridesmaids, Misses Enid Smith, Margaret Howe, and train bearer June Sutton (click on image 1 above for photo) - Turned her back on Fame!, Pretty, brown haired Louise Studley, who for the past few years has been so popular with Dublin musical comedy audiences, turned down the offer of a long contract with the D'Oyley Carte Opera Company last week. Last year she would not have hesitated in accepting this offer but since then she has met and become engaged to Mr. Brown S. Ryan, a Dublin businessman, with whom she is seen above. Since she was a schoolgirl Louise has taken leading parts in Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and since leaving school she has appeared in "Bitter Sweet," "Glamorous Night! and other popular musical comedies with amateur companies in Dublin and Cork. The Studleys, who live in Raheny, are a talented family. Louise's brother Tom is a member of Radio Eireann's Repertory Company and has won an award for his outstanding performances, while her mother Mrs. Eileen Studley, is a well known pianist. (click on image 1 above for photo) - 'Old Crocks' Cavalcade, Some of their old-time glory was recaptured for a brief spell by 43 veteran motor vehicles, which made a brave turn-out for the annual Veteran Car Run of the Leinster Motor Club on the roads of Kildare yesterday. The commemoration run of 80 miles took place over part of the 350 mile route taken by the pioneer contestants fifty years ago. Owners and drivers were dressed in period costumes, and many of the crews carried lady passengers, whose attire was one of the picturesque features of the colourful cavalcade. Oldest Car. Oldest car competing was an 1895 Panhard and Levassor, driven by Mr. Roycroft, Newbridge, which belonged at one time to the late Sir Arthur Guinness. Another survivor of the past was a 6 h.p. 1901 De Dion, owned and driven by Mr. D. Dickson, Clare Hall, Belcamp, Raheny, who was accompanied by Miss Joyce Dickson. This car, which won the Goff Cup last year, was unearthed on a farm in Wicklow in 1938, when it was purchased for 50/- (click on image 1 above for photo)
2) The Sunday Express, May 10th, 1953 - Princess Margaret (click on image 2 above for photo and full story)
3) small articles (click on image 3 above for photos and details)
4) 28.9.53 Mr. Robert Brumwell Henderson, son of Commander Oscar Henderson, C.V.O., C.B.E., D.S.O., and Mrs. Henderson, Glenburn House, Dunmurry, and his bride, Miss Joy Frances Duncan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Duncan, Millicent Terrace, Portadown, after their wedding in Portadown Parish Church (click on image 4 above for photo) - The Best of Pals, Seven months old Denise and her budgerigar are great friends, which is quite understandable as she plays more with the colourful little bird than she does with any of her toys. "Sonny Boy" likes to perch on Denise's shoulder, and sometimes varies his perch by sitting on her head. (click on image 4 above for photo) - They Thought This Game Was Strictly Between Cats, The gentlemen and the player, Peter the budgerigar plays cricket. (click on image 4 above for photo and full story)
5) What is a Boy? - Cartoons - Woman must be her age (click on image 5 above for photos and details)
6) Eileen Joyce, and now her story can be told. (click on image 6 above for photo and full story) - Baby Girl Born as Heiress Died, A daughter was born to Mrs. Patino Goldsmith, the 18 year old heiress who eloped to Scotland four months ago, a few minutes before she dies in Paris on Friday night. (click on image 5 above for photo and further details) - Liszt, the Genius (click on image 5 above for full article) - A Dog's Ghost (click on image 6 above for story)
7) The People, Sunday, April 19, 1953 - What is a Girl? (click on image 7 above for photos and full article) - The People, Sunday, February 14th, 1954 - Poppa can't believe it's happened, 79 year old pensioner George Washington Alexander Pigg and his bouncing utterly unexpected first-born child (click on image 7 above for photo and full story)
8) Daily Express, Friday October 10th 1952, Three Train Crash at Harrow and Wealdstone Station, The Search goes on, 73 killed (click on image 8 above for photos and full story)
9) He gazes into the iron lung at the lovely girl he will marry, Betty Harvey 22 year old victim of polio and Erin Witham, 23 (click on image 9 above for photo and full story) - Hundreds late for work, Train Breakdown, Howth to Dublin (click on image 9 above for details)

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Careful, he's alive (click on image 1 above for photo and details) - February 3rd, 1954, Wolf Boy Very Badly Crippled (click on image 1 above for photo and full story) - Evening Herald, Monday July 19th, 1954, Now Eleven Years Old, The Diligenti Quins (click on image 1 above for photo and details)
2) 30-1-54 Say Farewell to the Howth Trams (click on image 2 above for photos and full story) - Evening Herald, Friday, January, 29th 1954 Howth Trams (click on image 2 above for article)
3) Wolf Boy (click on image 3 above for photo and full article) - Eight Foot Man (click on image 3 above for photo and details) - Death of a Great Horseman, Captain Michael Tubridy, the well-known former member of the Army jumping team, who has died in St. Laurence's Hospital, following a riding accident at Trimblestown Stud Farm, Trim, which he managed for Mr. Joseph McGrath. The Hon. W. E. Wylle or Wylie, President, National Equestrian Federation of Ireland (R.D.S.), has received the following telegram from Lieut.-Col. M. P. Ansell, British Horse Society: "We all mourn loss of a great horseman and tender our deepest sympathy." It is signed "Mike and all members British Horse Society." (click on image 3 above for photo and fully story) - December 19th, 1953, He Came by Train, Drogheda Railway Station, Santa Claus (click on image 3 above for photo and full story)
4) The Irish Times, Dublin, Thursday, June 5th, 1952 - Queen Elizabeth's First Honours List, Sir Basil Brooke one of two new Viscounts. (click on image 4 above for full list of honours, also for Northern Ireland honours list) - Take Notice! The Driver of this Van is a Blind Man (click on image 4 above for photo and details)
5) George Gifford and his wife are two of the Mathieson Chemical employees who were moved here from New York (click on image 5 above for photo and full story)
6) Judy is sweet seventeen, but looks like a 10 year old, Judy Horn looks a typical ten year old. In her neat print dress, white ankle socks and hair ribbon you would expect to find her nursing a doll of playing hopscotch. But call her "little girl" and Judy will stamp her size 13½ child's shoe in justifiable anger. For despite her appearance SHE is almost seventeen. (click on image 6 above for photo and full story) - Sunday January 16th, 1955 - Wife is 200, husband 99, Mrs. Hannah Maria Adcock was 100 yesterday. And joining in the family celebrations at her home in Granville Street, Barnsley, Yorks, was her 99 year old husband John. (click on image 6 above for full story) - Police save Dennis Price in gas room, Police broke open a door yesterday and found actor Dennis Price unconscious on the floor of a gas filled kitchen. He was taken to hospital from the guest house at which he was staying in Egerton Gardens, Kensington, London. The housekeeper smelled gas when she went to make tea. She could not open the kitchen door. She dialled 999 and policemen found Mr. Price. (click on image 6 above for photo and full story) - Six More Babies Die, Six more new born babies died yesterday to bring the death role in Sunday's fire at Dellwood maternity home, Reading, to seven. Fifteen babies, none more than 12 days old, were carried from the blaze by Sister Freda Holland, aged 41. One of them, a boy, later that night died of burns. He was six hours old. All the eight surviving babies are seriously ill. Sister Holland, who was seriously burned in rescuing them, is making satisfactory progress after a skin grafting operation. Time and again she went back into the flames, each time coming out with a blanket covered child.
7) Battle of Hastings 1954 (click on image 7 above for photo and full story) - Retiring after 50 Years with Rail Board, Mr. Frank C. Wallace, Secretary of the Great Northern Railway since 1926, retires today after more than half a century in the Company's service. Mr. Wallace began his G.N.R. career in the Secretary's Department at Great Victoria Street, Belfast, his native city, and in 1919 was called to Dublin by Mr. J. B. Stephens, the then Secretary and Assistant Manager, to be his Chief Clerk. When Mr. Stephens became General Manager in 1926, Mr. Wallace succeeded him as Secretary of the Company. That post came to an end on September 1 last when the G.N.R. was nationalised, but he was automatically appointed to the corresponding position in the new Company. (click on image 7 above for rest of story)
8) The Not So Cruel Sea, it gave yesterdays bride her husband, Virginia McKenna married Denholm Elliott (click on image 8 above for photo and full story) - Social and Personal, August 1953, Mr. J. H. Nash and Miss D. Sidford, Mr. John Heddle Nash, and Miss Dulcie Sidford, daughter of Mr. A. Sidford and the late Mr. Dermot R. Sidford, leaving Howth Parish Church after the wedding (click on image 8 above for photo) - Engaged, Mr. Bryan S. Ryan, second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Albert Ryan, of Alma, Stillorgan Road, Dublin, and Miss Louise Studley, only daughter of the late Dr. T. C. Studley, and Mrs. E. Studley, of Sutton, Co. Dublin. Miss Studley sings with the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society and with Radio Eireann (click on image 8 above for photo) - Engaged, Mr. B. Carr, member of Lansdowne Rugby Football Club, and well-known sportsman, of Clontarf, Dublin, at a recent dance in Dublin, with his fiancée, Miss Joan McInnally, Oakwood, Sutton, Co. Dublin (click on image 8 above for photo) - Study These Eyes, Mrs. Janet Hitchman, 37 year old village house keeper with astonishing sight (click on image 8 above for full story)
9) Empire News, Sunday April 11th, 1954, Irish Profile, All eyes are on Fred, Frederick John Milward, station master at Sutton, Co. Dublin. (click on image 9 above for photo of Fred and full story, this gentleman I assume is related to the owner of these scrapbook, Aileen Milward, of Station House, Sutton) - The policeman goes to sea, Sergt. James Campbell, just retired from the Civic Guard, starts a new life today. After 32 years as a policeman he has decided to become a fisherman. Today, his fishing boat Rosailither will be blessed in Wexford Harbour. Mr. Campbell's three sons, James, Jack and Dermot will be his crew. - Boko Again! Surviving Siamese Twin (click on image 9 above for photo and full story)

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Friday June 18th 1954 - Hannen Swaffer on Budgerigars! (click on image 1 for photo and full story) - Two famous babies, Folky and Chisky (click on image 1 for photo and full story) - Little Bit of Ireland, A patch of turf from Ireland, 25 pounds, was sold for 1,000 dollars £357) at an auction in Chicago last night. The turf flown to the Irish Fellowship Club for its annual St. Patrick's Day programme was bought by Mr. Joel Goldblatt, President of a Department store. The 1,000 dollars will go to charity selected by Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago
2) Picturegoer, April 27, 1946 - Harpo the Maestro (click on image 2 for photo and full story) - Josh Gifford (click on image 2 for photo and full story)
3, 4, 5) Massey-Harris Haying Machines
6, 7) Wolsey TV Aerials & Accessories - Telerad Television Sales & Services Co., 5 Carlisle Circus, Belfast
8, 9, 10) 4 Cylinder Gasoline Distillate Engine
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