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Sugden, Philip. Amy's Last Flight: The Fate of Amy Johnson in 1941. Beverley, East Yorkshire:
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Highgate Press, 2015.
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Turner, Mary. The Women's Century: A Celebration of Changing Roles 1900–2000. Kew, Richmond,
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Surrey, UK: The National Archives, 2003. .
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External links
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Biography of Amy Johnson by Science Museum, London
BBC Humber article on Johnson
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BBC page on Amy Johnson's death
The RAF Museum, Hendon, includes another Johnson display
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RAF History page on Amy Johnson
CWGC record
Amy Johnson: Pioneer Aviator, Article by LaRue Scott
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Science Museum article on women in engineering including Amy Johnson
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de Havilland Gipsy Moth G-AAAH "Jason" in display at the Science Museum in London
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Comet Racer G-ACSP Restoration
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British Library – 'The Story of My Flight' Amy Johnson describes her flight to Australia in a
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National Sound Archive recording.
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One minute silent film; close-ups of Amy Johnson speaking. Pathe News, Cape Town, 1932
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Listen to songs inspired by, and recordings of, famous aviators including Charles Kingsford Smith,
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Amy Johnson and Bert Hinkler talking about their journeys on the National Film and Sound Archive of
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Australia's website: "Our Heroes of the Air"
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1903 births
1940s missing person cases
1941 deaths
20th-century women engineers
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Accidental deaths in England
Air Transport Auxiliary pilots
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
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Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in England
Aviation pioneers
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British aviation record holders
British women aviators
British women aviation record holders
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British women engineers
British women in World War II
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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Croydon Airport
English aviators
Glider pilots
Harmon Trophy winners
People from Kingston upon Hull
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People lost at sea
Presidents of the Women's Engineering Society
Segrave Trophy recipients
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Women's Engineering Society
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British civilians killed in World War II
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Trim () is a town in County Meath, Ireland. It is situated on the River Boyne and has a population
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of 9,194. The town is noted for Trim Castle – the largest Norman castle in Ireland. One of the two
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cathedrals of the United Dioceses of Meath and Kildare — St Patrick's cathedral — is located north
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of the river. Trim won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1972, 1984, and 2014 and was the "joint"
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winner with Ballyconnell in 1974. Traditionally Trim was the county town of Meath, but this title
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was passed on over time onto larger, neighbouring town Navan.
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History
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Early history
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At an early date, a monastery was founded at Trim, which lay within the petty kingdom (tuath) of
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the Cenél Lóegairi. It is traditionally thought to have been founded by St. Patrick and left in the
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care of its patron saint Lommán, also locally known as Loman, who flourished sometime between the
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5th and early 6th centuries. When domestic politics endangered the position of Lommán's foundation,
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the church of Armagh assimilated Lommán into the dossier of St. Patrick, making him a disciple of
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that saint. Attackers burned the church several times in the twelfth century. The town was first
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captured by the English during the Norman invasion of Ireland and a castle was built. However, the
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town was recaptured and the castle burned by a massive Irish army under the command of Ruadhrí Ua
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Conchobair, King of Ireland. Later, it was refounded as an St. Mary's Abbey under Augustinian rule.
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The abbey church was the sanctuary for "Our Lady of Trim", a wooden statue reported to work
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miracles. The statue made Trim a major pilgrimage site from at least 1397. During the Reformation
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the statue was burned and Henry VIII dissolved the abbey. The abbey's bell tower, the "Yellow
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Steeple", is the primary remnant of St. Mary's.
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With the spelling "Áth Truim", the bishopric is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular
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see. Since it is not mentioned in either of the lists of the reduced number of sees approved by the
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Synod of Ráth Breasail (1111) and the Synod of Kells (1152), it was one of the monastic
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establishments that were no longer recognized as seats of bishops after the 12th-century
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reorganization of the Church in Ireland. Its territory was joined to that of Meath Diocese.
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Norman period
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Lying 61 m above sea level on the River Boyne, Trim became one of the most important Hiberno-Norman
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settlements in the Middle Ages. In the 15th century the Norman-Irish parliament met in Trim. Arthur
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Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington is reputed to have been born in Dangan Castle between Trim and
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Summerhill, and a large column to him was erected in the town in 1817. The town's main feature is
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Ireland's largest Norman castle, Trim Castle; other features include two ruined church complexes,
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the Boyne River for fishing, and the Butterstream Gardens, visited by Charles, Prince of Wales in
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the mid-nineties (no longer open to the public).
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Trim Castle (or King John's Castle) is Ireland's largest Norman castle. It was built in the late
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12th century following the Norman invasion of Ireland. Trim and the surrounding lands were granted
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to Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, a Norman baron. Richard II of England stayed there before being
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ousted from power. Once a candidate to be the country's capital, the town has also occupied a role
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as one of the outposts of the Pale, and sessions of the Irish Parliament were sometimes held here,
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as in 1542. It was also designated by Elizabeth I of England as the planned location for a
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Protestant Dublin University (known as Trinity College, Dublin). However this was revised by Sir
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Francis Drake, who advocated the case for locating the University in Dublin.
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Later history
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In 1649 after the sacking of Drogheda, the garrison of Trim fled to join other Irish forces and the
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town was occupied by the army of Oliver Cromwell. There were many local disturbances in
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neighbouring villages in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, most infamously the battle on the Hill of
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Tara, following the dispersal of the Wexford rebellion. Trim was represented by Arthur Wellesley in
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the Irish Parliament from 1790 to 1797.
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The 19th century saw the construction of Trim Courthouse, St. Loman's Catholic church, St.
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Patrick's Anglican church, the Wellington column, the current Bank of Ireland building, and Castle
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Street by Lord Dunsany, a major landowner. Following the Great Irish Famine of 1846–1849, the
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practices of agriculture in the hinterland altered, with a change in emphasis from tillage to stock
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raising. This resulted in a change in the business life of Trim. Trim developed as a market town
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for the productive agricultural hinterland. Some small-scale local industries were developed
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including envelope, and leather product manufacturing. Trim was also chosen as a location for the
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Timoney Engineering company to make Fire Tenders. However, in the main, the town continued to
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mainly be a service centre for its immediate area.
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20th century and contemporary
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During the Irish War of Independence, local companies of the Irish Republican Army took Trim RIC
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Barracks, a large structure located on the current site of the Castle Arch Hotel, secured the arms
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from the barracks and then burnt down the Barracks. A large part of the town was burned as a
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reprisal by the British Crown forces on 26 September 1920. The local members were drawn from Trim,
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Longwood, Ballivor and South Meath in general. The Lalor brothers from Castle St. were prominent
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members as well as the Duignans from High St and the Proctors. Records of the adventures of the
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Lalors rest in Navan library and recount the tales of one of the brothers hiding in the recently
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dug grave of Fr. Woods in the churchyard. Local memories recall the townspeople sheltering down by
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the Boyne for a few nights as the Black 'n' Tans and Auxiliaries burnt out prominent businesses and
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the town hall. Footage of the burning of J&E Smyth can be viewed on the 'Pathe' website. Many of
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the townspeople were traumatised for the rest of their lives; many children in Trim were not
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allowed to play with guns; memories of the B'n'Ts dangling grenades outside their windows as the
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Town Hall burnt and peeled the paint off their doors at Castle St. remained for a long time. The
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newspapers reported the burning of the barracks and the subsequent looting and burning of the town
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and follow-up operations by the local IRA.
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In later years, the Lalors who moved to the house across the road from the old Brothers school had
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