http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/ Swindon Advertiser /news/remember/swindonatwar/ en-gb Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:50:08 +0000 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:50:08 +0000 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/1147263/?type=rsslogo http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/ http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/5061254.THE_ADVER_1940__Gracie_Fields_gets_married/?ref=rss %image(756675) Friday March 15: “One million Jews will die in the next few months unless world Jewry comes to the rescue,” Dr Goldman, chairman of the Jewish World Council told the League of Nations. He estimated 25,000 Jews had been killed in Poland since the outbreak of war. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:25:06 +0000 7c6ba7db73242d27c556c0f730bbd178 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/5061244.Fury_at_cinema_prices/?ref=rss Film fans accused Swindon cinemas of reducing the number of cheap seats and increasing the expensive ones when they showed a good movie. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:22:35 +0000 140bcf6043a571db2f38ee30ff91964b http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/5061238.Woman_attacked_by_lodger/?ref=rss Rose Vitti, wife of lodging house proprietor Angelo Vitti, told how she was attacked by a lodger at the Albert Street premises during a hearing at Swindon Borough Police Court. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:19:22 +0000 b14e1befb8b008995bab6e8f0978f5b7 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/5046841.THE_ADVER_1940__Explosion_on_mail_train/?ref=rss %image(756675) Friday March 8: The burning question in Swindon was what will the new rate be? Hopes of a reduction had been encouraged by the 9d fall in the Wiltshire rate and the Evening Advertiser reported that a drop of 3d in the pound was likely in Swindon. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:54:49 +0000 d0d565bdc1d998110e221bf9564de9a3 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/5046828.Residents_dig_for_victory/?ref=rss Swindon was leading the way in the national Dig For Victory campaign with the Council of Social Service reporting a marked interest in the take up of allotments during recent weeks. “Even so, we still have about 30 ten lug plots of land at Pinehurst waiting to be taken up, and I believe the town council has a lot of allotment land still unlet,” secretary Mr TH Fessey told an Advertiser reporter. He anticipated they would soon have as much land under cultivation as in the days when Swindon had 4,000 unemployed men. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:51:58 +0000 e272f8268ecd40e2da5417ce566c6377 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/5046825.Wives_up_in_arms_over_rations/?ref=rss As the Bisto kids advertised the beginning of meat rationing on March 11, Swindon railwaymen’s wives expressed their concerns that the 1s 10d meat ration was “totally inadequate” for their men’s needs. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:50:51 +0000 c78310ac150a95550b4198554be4f76b http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/5046822.Final_farewell_to_motoring_pioneer/?ref=rss Ernest Clement Skurray, described as a pioneer of the English motoring industry, died at his home at West Lodge, Swindon, aged 74, this week in 1940. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:50:04 +0000 7e1179213b093e9076065604d03d1194 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/4994171.Atrocities_in_Poland_made_plain/?ref=rss The Advertiser continued to publish the unpalatable truths of events in Eastern Europe and in the lead story, Thursday February 8 exposed wartime atrocities taking place in German occupied Poland. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:03:49 +0000 d372db6dc15aa48924ccccbd986066c3 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/4994169.GWR_provides_new_ambulance_trains/?ref=rss Nine state-of-the-art ambulance trains were in production at various railway workshops nationwide, including the GWR complex at Swindon. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:02:54 +0000 291230cb61f145dc648801f091d07f31 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/4994174.Firms_consider_paying_wages_earlier/?ref=rss In Swindon several large employers were asked if they would agree to paying wages earlier in the week at a meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:04:34 +0000 cf0f8e6b773ab4328e27587adb06ca6e http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/4994192.THE_ADVER_1940__71_year_convicted_for_100th_time/?ref=rss %image(756675) Swindon Corporation released figures for money spent on elementary school maintenance in the town during 1939. Teacher’s salaries and superannuation contributions to the teachers’ fund accounted for £76,985 of the total £98,188 expenditure while £1,635 went on fuel and £866 on electric light, gas and water. Wages for school caretakers and groundsmen amounted to £3,732 while rent, rates and taxes cost £4,601 and building repairs and insurance amounted to £2,111. School meals cost £896, books and stationery £3,124 and £175 was spent on prizes with the “conveyance of children” costing £87. The Government grant towards meeting these costs amounted to £61,228. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:08:27 +0000 e4fbd6d2e407476f5aa1b6b0f67d1cd4 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/remember/swindonatwar/4994155.Town_mourns_loss_of_cricketer/?ref=rss Swindon mourned the death of Charlie Williams, all round sportsman and former licensee at the County Ground Hotel, this week in 1940. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:00:23 +0000 14fadbe87b857a96180f89cd52f245a1