Frances Day, .singing to British and .'Hied seamen, in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s weekly programme “Shipmates Ashore.” This was the first performance of the programme at the new Merchant Navy Club on its opening day. Frances Day was the guest star. Initiated by the B.B.C. as a one-day-a-week rendezvous for officers and men of the Merchant Service on leave in London, the “Shipmates Ashore” club became so popular that it has blossomed into a seven-day-a-week establishment with dining, reading and writing rooms, billiards and games rooms, shower baths, a bar, and a tea lounge-cum-radio room.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 228, 28 September 1942, Page 6
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95Frances Day, .singing to British and .'Hied seamen, in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s weekly programme “Shipmates Ashore.” This was the first performance of the programme at the new Merchant Navy Club on its opening day. Frances Day was the guest star. Initiated by the B.B.C. as a one-day-a-week rendezvous for officers and men of the Merchant Service on leave in London, the “Shipmates Ashore” club became so popular that it has blossomed into a seven-day-a-week establishment with dining, reading and writing rooms, billiards and games rooms, shower baths, a bar, and a tea lounge-cum-radio room. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 228, 28 September 1942, Page 6
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