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... or by the side of the road, by not putting up a window shutter at night in . blacksmith’s shops by bonfires bull-baiting, foot-ball, Ac. by leaving carriages timber or blockstones running of water or filth, or suffering swine to root up the road or damage ...

THE CHESHIRE WHIG CLUB.—We have, in this day's publication, devoted as much space as we could con

... piece of ground expressly for the amusement of their ca leisure hours, which might be devoted to quoits, prison, te bars, foot-ball, or cricket. If the, corporat6 funds were, da as they ought to be, at the disposal of the burgesses at large, there would ...

Published: Friday 15 October 1824
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

NEW IMPROVED SAFETY BOATS AND LIFE-BOATS

... shock which 'would crush its e- any common boat to pieces, leaves no more impression up- ton her, than a blow does upon a football. Her keel co. stem and stern post, are formed of one piece of-timber, thi steam-bent, and so contrived, that if she were ...

Published: Friday 28 October 1825
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1433 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Advertisements & Notices

... 1t of appropriating some openpieces of land in the outskirts to such innocent amusements of the working cls es, as tennis, football, quoits, and other games and ath- letic exercises, all under sueh regulations and restrictions as the Common Council may ...

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LAFAYETTE

... sports than those which are accompanied with torture to any living being. We would see them amused with foot races, cricket, football, trap, qunits, fives, prison-bars, and a variety of other healthy and cheering pastimes; neither would we forget aquatic ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1827
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2300 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... benefit of the industrious classes, than for a play-ground for grown children to amuse themselves with foot-races, cricket, football, trap, quoits, fives, prison -bars, at all of which the editor of Mercury is an adept, except at the game of he not having ...

Published: Monday 30 July 1827
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 919 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... Lcd-iger” that out the country have the Estimates as suniing basis rhd-e enter into any till their enquiiies concluded the annual football match Northumberland Alnwick took place week married men (he by were The Angifsea-— Hi Exrellcnry arrived ( but letter said ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1828
Newspaper: Liverpool Saturday's Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4020 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... exercises played by the92d regiment quartered in Edinburgh These exercises they call military gymnastics leaping running foot-ball dancing and give the climux drollery races blindfold and in sacks the piping times of peace should doubtless be exercised ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1828
Newspaper: Liverpool Saturday's Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5726 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RECOLLECTIONS OF LIVERPOOL

... increase of population. The fields a little above the School for the Blind, in which, in our boyish days, we have played at foot-ball, are now covered with houses. Seymour-street has sprung into existence, and all the streets above and below it, except Great ...

Published: Monday 14 July 1828
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2532 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VARIETIES

... rubbish ; not a house was left entire ; not a living thing was to be seen ; not a sound did I hear but the. souud of my own footbal:s through the lonely streets, or the wind as it moaned away through that city of the dead which stood in all the blackness ...

Published: Monday 11 August 1828
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3960 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.—PROCLAMATION OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR, FOR ENCOURAGING LAWFUL RECREATIONS ON THE ..

... Peact ot~the Io egtin'cmeedte' game of football, 'and 'the pleiig.*ann himself has, ben a- tnon o jinin hq~ir. 'lt~Freli terigbteous'or , ~ pnordud toth creit of th ~edGete Ima'heradhis Ahead too. -The, football niatohe4 o - -were at length suppressedi- ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1828
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3728 | Page: 8 | Tags: News