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Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 2

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Liverpool Echoi
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bf CHILDREN. Crackerjack. Featuring Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas 5.5 Junior Points of View. LOOK NORTH.

Reconal news. WEATHER. GARDENING CLUB Featuring advice for beginners. TONIGHT. Topical look-around.

COMPACT. Doug discovers another Mr. Beatty. SYKES AND A COLD WAR. A tussle starts for Eric and Haw.

when Dick Emery and Dandy Nichols become the only other couple on the Kosy Karavan THE KATHY KERIY SHOW. Gueetstarring Ronnie Carroll. POINTS OF VIEW. Robert Robinson presents viewers' views. 1.3 Against the Stream.

A poorlypaid research scientist versus a big business combine. Who will win? Starring John Robinson, Griffith Jones and George Roubicek. THE DICK DYKE SHOW. Comedy. NOT SO MUCH A PROGRAMME MORE A WAY OF LIFE.

David Frost and his colleagues take another wry look at life. NEWS EXTRA. WEATHER. CLOSE DOWN, ITV (Channel S) 4.45 THE TING I IA AND TUCKER CLUB. 5.23 SWORD OF FREEDOM.

6.3 MIDLANDS NEWS. 6.15 MIDLAND PROFILE. 6.35 CROSSROADS. 0.0 BONANZA, SQUARE. DEAL SAM.

10.35 POLICE FIVE. 10.40 THE. FRIDAY FILM: QUIET WOMAN. PART 1. 11.0 NEWS HEADLINES.

11.4 THE FRIDAY FILM, PART 2. WEATHER. EPILOGUE. series it 9.10. CHILDREN.

Five O'Cloek Club with Eden Kane. The Trendsetters and Beverley Jones. NEWS. THE BEVERLY HILLBII.IIE-S. Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas and Max Baer Jr, In Clampett City.

The Clampetts like the Western set in film studios so much that they move in. SCENE AT 6.30 round-up. TAKE YOUR PICK with Michael Miles. 10. Ho-pital drama serial.

BONANZA. Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon in Logan's Treasure. mith Dan Duryea. Ben Cartwright goes to the defence of an ex-eonviet accused of lying about bured treasures. VICTORIA REGINA.

Patricia Routledge and Joachim Hansen in Episode Three: Autumn. UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE. This Beek Nev College. Oxford. meets Imperial College.

London. Bamber Gascoigne asks the questions. READY, STEADY, GO! with The Beatles. The Searcherc. Billy .1.

Kramer. and The Dakotas, The Ney Brothers. Nrws HEADLINES. NORTHERN NEWSCAST. ITN REPORTS.

The big news of the week. ELIZABETH SELLARS as Dr. May Howard In "Against The Stream," the second R. 3" story at 11.25 DICK EMERY loins Erie Sykes at 8.111. HUGH CROSS as Dr.

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030 Secerd Iwo evog am Tee a' sum, 1. 10 10 11 00 1 11 15 Ma -01 LONDON: 330 in, 6 16 3S 6.6 nil. inquired into decacualisation and turned its cameras in precisely the wrong direction. It was, I have no doubt, far more convenient to film interviews in London docks, within a few miles of the studios, but if you realty want to get at the kernel of the decasualisation problem. the place to visit is Liverpool.

This is nut just local bias. It is a simple matter of fact. As "This Week" told us. the London port employers have so far done comparatively little towards decasualising dock labour. Contrast this with Merseyside.

where a bold decasualisation scheme has been put forward by the employers and has encountered opposition from the In London move: to Promote decasualisation seem so far to have been confined to tally clerks, but in Liverpool the decasualisation scheme would affect every docker. This Week a ked by docker objected to drea-uali at some rather nebulous A trip to Merseyside. xtltere the problems are being argued in detail, would have been much more illuminating. Slightly nettled by being asked If he a former Shakespearian actor had sold out to television. Raymond last night Provided the B.R.C.'s -Tonight" a lively inter- But medium of I the and 7 Of theatrical snobbery do not alter the fact that the eres to which he has devoted the pa't few year arnonc the moot meretremus has to offer.

W.D.A. HAVING asked itself "exactly what is wrong with the docks?" ITV's This Week last night ON CHRISTNIAS NIORNING. at Olive mount Children's Hospital. Mill Lane. Liverpool, an illuminated sleigh, packed with toys and carrying a benign Santa Claus, will arrive in the wards.

The sleigh will he led in by a band of pipers and there will be a gay team of morris dancers, too, to add to the thrill for the children. But one little girl. 10- years old Gillian Bennett, will not know --unless there's the miracle for which her mother prays the happiness that is going on around her. For Gillian has been in a coma for more than five years and never LIGHT THE LIVERPOOL ECHO AND EVENING EXPRESS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27.

1964 Mrq. Blanche Ro'e. of 61 Bedford Road Liverpool, told me. "You couldn't hone to find a more cheerfut: delTzhtful companion and friend anywhere. She is a wonderful example to anyone who suffers from physical handicaps." Folks And Things They Do Formed by Eastham bank manager and Birkenhead Operatic Society bass Bill Morris.

of 25 Bruce Crescent. Bromborough. last April for the express purpose of aiding the Freedom from Hunger Campaign, the Morris Sinters, a choir of 40, have already raised about £75 from three performances or Handet's Messiah" churches. Liverpool To-night they repeat the performance at St. Christopher's.

Norris and they have further recitals at St. Michael's. II n. a week to-night. and at Christ Church, Bootie.

the following Friday. Their solists include Marjorie Jones. the Birkenhead A.O.S. soprano: Gaemor Charles Jones and Janet Jacques. contraltos: John Stone.

tenor. and Rill Merrill. I with Derek Sadler at the Gillian's Sixth Slumbering. Christmas, Unless awakens from her deep slumber. It on September 22, 1959.

that Gillian. then five years old. was involved in a street accident with a motor cycle while playing near her home at 8 Lee Hall Road. Gateacre, Liverpool. She was unconscious when the ambulance men picked her up and took her to hospital.

Sinee that day. she has lain in a roma with seareelY a movement ether than the slight rise and fall of her chest as she breathes gently. Gillian's 33 years old mother. Mrs. Elsie Bennett.

and her husband go regularly two or three times every week to the hospital to sit by her bedside. "Now and again she opens her eyes and looks around, but she doesn't know us, and she falls off again without a smile or a word." Mrs. Bennett told me she will even stretch her arms as if she is going to hut she never does. Her ife has been like this for five long years and evil there has been no answer to our prayers that one day the will happen. At Christmas time feel It most.

although everyone at Olive Mount is so wonderfully kind. It has been their affection and kindness which have kept us going through ears since I lian's accident." she added. The staff of the parcel Post Office of the O. in Hatton Garden, Liverpool. tlieir own hospital fund and from it they provide the biC Christmas morning treat for the Mount Gillian has been one of their sweethearts for coming up to six ina es.

although she has known oothng about it. Sa.d honorary secretary Roberts to me: Every Chrstmas we go along to Mount. and I know that there isn't one of us. from Santa Claus and our Post Office Pape Bandsmen to the other helpers who due-in't say a quiet prayer that one morning He shall find our Sleeping Beauty sating up and enjoying herself the tu3s." The Travelling Slaters Emigrating to An.tralta from their home in Allerton. Liverpool.

go Mr. and Mrs. Fred Slater and their six children. Fred has been for years an engine driver British Railways and as recently commended for his quick thinking averted a serious crash to the express he nas driving. With this branch of the Slater family flying away.

parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Slater. of 5 Bower Road. Huston, are going to find things a bit quiet.

Their itingest daughter, SNlvia. flew to the United States to take up a secretarial appointment early this year. Next. their ungest son. William.

joined the Merchant Navy and uent overseas. Their eldest daughter. Maureen, who is married. has been away in America for seven years and hasn't been home in all that time. Right now.

she and her husband are in so there's more chance of a hometown visit in the near future. So the situation for Mr. and Mrs. Slater. senior.

that they are bark where they started all alone attain. That Woodside Ferry Picture Several older readers have rallied round with sniormation about teat picture I u'od on Tuesday of Wooriode Fully entrance as it a' ago. with horsedrawn tram, hair-om cabs and all. Mr. George Dawson, of 12 Canterbury Road.

Hock Ferry. sets the date at between 1890 and 1899 and adds. Electric trains Were introduced into Birkenhead in 1901 and the first route to be was from Woodside to New Ferry. I place the lime of the photograph at between 189(1 and 1899 because of the ferry-boat which can be seen crossing the river. It was one of two very wellknown vessels of that era.

the forerunners of the twin Screw type used prior to the present diesels. They were the Wirral and the Mersey. built in 1890 by John Jones, of Liverpool. for the Woodside-Liverpool run, and they maintained this service until about MOO. when they opened the Rock Ferry service.

with the old Firefly as a Mersey was broken up in at Preston and replaced by the Union. The Wirral was sold and converted Into a coaster and during the 1914-18 war she was A Miracle taken over by the Navy and used as a 'mystery adds Mr. Dawson. Pinpointing the picture's date as either 1898 or 1899. Mr.

S. H. Hughes. of 3 Tulip Avenue. Claughton.

Birkenhead, works it out by the tram's. 1 he two sets of tramlines were the routes for New Ferry and Conway Street, Borough Road and Prenton," he declares. "There was another tram route, too, that ran along the line of docks about that time." Mr. Harry 0. Henry, Of 86 Souh Street, Princes Park, Liverpool 8, suggests 1890 to 1894 as the most likely date and he gauges a by the dress worn by women the old picture.

U.S. Vocation For Barbara Back home seam In St rect. Barbara Davies. after a I hrillinv, me on a holiday trap to the United State. on as a prize in a dress and personal: lass although her modesty will cause her to blush at my de.cription of undergone more than 12 further operations, including bone grafting.

"Despite her handicap. she has achieved a lot and nobody has ever heard from her a word of complaint or of envy for her lifelong friend, Anagrin 0 1 11 (AL She is a gay. girl gets a great deal out of life although she debarred from such al The above caption is In joys as dancing or th orm of an anagram. pretty shoe'. Rearrange the letters to For Barbara was born orm re silth a spinal tumour.

tier and raw will have a sew first operation was hen title. ahe was only five days old. Since then. this gallant I (Answer oat Page 51 SEEM DOA CALL wren ill giving their talents free. I've been asked for the address of the Merseyside branch of the Glider Pilot Regiment Association by several ex pilots hereabout.

Contact Bill Maek, at the Produce Exchange, Victoria Street, Liverpool 2 (Central 8364,. Mrs. Mary Jordan, of God's Providence House, Westgate Row, Chester, a governor of the Gordon Smith Institute for Seamen in Paradise Street, Liverpool, is hoping to get the Beatles to the IrMitue next time they are up this way. Meantime, Mary, the charming rife of Reg Jordan, 8.8. C.

chief in this area, is getting ready to leave on December 23 for Port Said, Aden, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong. Shanghai, Yokohama and Kobe. She's an inveterate globe-trotter every wittier. Sting In The Tale The flood subsided and all the animals left the Ark except two little snakes. Why do you not go forth and multiply?" asked Noah.

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rescot Birkenhead Ho lake 134-140 WAvERTREE ROAD 247 ERECK ROAD, EVERTON OEM Ellesmere Port Chester St MARYS fr GRRSTON. MOOR ST CIRM3KIRK rekst 0 Barbara Davies. of Dyson Street. Liverpool. won a holiday for herself in America.

(See: US. Vacation For Barbara.).

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