New York, Lincolnshire

City

New York is a hamlet in East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The hamlet has a population of less than 150 at count in 2001. It is situated in the Lincolnshire Fens, on the B1192 road 18 km north of Boston. grid reference TF245555. After the September 11, 2001 attacks it decorated its road signs with flowers out of respect ...

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Documents about New York, Lincolnshire

Tuesday 19th March 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet approves development of standard men’s suit to save wool. Halifax warns against “depression” over policy failures
person Sumner Welles
person Harold Wilson
person Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Finland
place Halifax Peninsula
place Brussels
place Turkey
place Europe
place West Germany
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation Scapa
 

Sunday 16th June 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Churchill: “Absolute condition” of granting assent that French fleet sail for Britain "forthwith"
extract Halifax: Ambassador Kennedy hints President saving declaration of war as “last card” if France offered “impossible” terms
extract PM: "Some possibility" that if terms too harsh French Government might carry on the struggle from outside France
extract French government request UK authorisation to enquire "what armistice conditions would be offered to France by the enemy"
person Charles de Gaulle
person Ronnie Campbell
person Winston Churchill
person Jean Bart
place Great Britain
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Alexandria
organisation French Navy
organisation Canadian Forces Maritime Command
organisation French Air Force
organisation French Army
 

Meeting minutes

extract Royal Navy to transport an estimated 20,000 men back to France from tonight
extract PM: Desirable to remove from UK as soon as possible all French troops not volunteering "to remain and carry on the fight"
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person Walter Hines Page
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
person Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
place South Africa
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Somaliland
place Egypt
place Iceland
place Malta
place Algeria
place Morocco
place Africa
organisation Hopatcong High School
organisation Royal Navy
organisation Royal Marines
 

Wednesday 21st August 1940

Gold and Exchange Resources. Summary of Position.

extract Chancellor "seriously perturbed" at UK's gold and foreign exchange reserves. Britain "out of gold by the end of December"
person William Patrick Stuart-Houston
person Kingsley Wood
place South Africa
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Egypt
place Iraq
place North America
place Sudan
place South America
place Newfoundland, Kentucky
place Burma
organisation Ministry of Supply
organisation New Zealand Treasury
organisation Bank of England
 

Tuesday 8th October 1940

Subversive Newspaper Propaganda.

extract Home Secretary: Not clear Daily Mirror deliberately intends to impede war effort. Will direct "friendly appeal" to Press
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
person Adolf Hitler
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Madrid
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation Daily Mirror
 

Wednesday 26th March 1941

Policy towards Vichy Shipping.

extract Shipping Minister demands Vichy reciprocate food aid shipments by returning two UK vessels "with cargo that we require"
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Gibraltar
place Morocco