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LATE DUKE OF YORK

... funeral. Early in the evening a veteran body of Grenadier Guards, who were emphatically called Waterloo men, and whose medals showed where they had acquired that honourable title, were drawn up in line along the south aile, the extremity of which a large ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1827
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9336 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Yesterday, heing Good Friday, whs observed in this borough solemnity becoming the occasion. The discovery ship, ..

... wholesome supply of water than that furnished at present by the Chelsea Works. Amongst the resolutions agreed upon, was one which stated, that the water taken up from the River Thames at Chelsea, for the use of the inhabitants of thc western portion the ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1827
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5877 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCALITIES AND GENERALITIES

... packet round to Portsmouth, and their subsequent route to Godalming, had not only suffered from frequent attacks illness,but showed evident symptoms of a disordered mind. Every care and attention, however, which humanity and good feeling could suggest was ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1827
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2288 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7

... several persons were killed, and others dangerously scalded Metropolitan Ponce.—Mr. Peel appointed Mr. Maurice Dowling, of Chelsea, Secretary to the Commissioners, and Chief Clerk of the New Police Force. Mr. Dowling is actively employed every day at the ...

Published: Monday 10 August 1829
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5279 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

We were strangely out in our anticipation last Week, & that there would be no contest for the representation of

... from their commencement. The annual Pink Show at Wokingham was held at the Buck Inn, onthe 28th ult. ‘There were eight pans of flowers, and the first prize was given to John Batten, of Hurst.—The annual Pink Show at the Pheasant, King-street, was held on ...

Published: Monday 12 July 1830
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1917 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE QUEEN S THIRD GRAND BALL

... the numerous poor who crave his charity, and look to him as their common benefactor. We have to state a fact, as evidence to show the high estimation which Loid Sligo is held the people The Fame, from Guernsey, Captain Baynon, with a cargo of potatoes, ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1831
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7230 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 10

... unfortunate Seignori, whose sincerity in caressing such visiters may easily estimated. Those them who are near the capital show no dislike to their quarters, and will not be very impatient to change them. In France, financial matters begin seriously to ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1833
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2889 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THURSDAY'S POST

... when James Smith, the watchman, William Parker, and Jobn Edwards, gave their testimony,—tbat the soldier, whose name was Flowers, made a statement apart from deponent, and bis statement agreed with that made by deponent, and that to his surprise he was ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1833
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9467 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Retrenchment. —W e have heard that the trifliug gratuity of one penny per week, given as a reward for good

... one penny per week, given as a reward for good conduct to the orphans of our brave defenders, in the Duke of York's school, Chelsea, has been ordered the retrenching Ministers to be discontinued. can scarcely believe that even the Whigs can carry meanness ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1833
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2847 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THURSDAY'S POST

... Twenty days and nights were passed this way, and he gradually sunk and died. The Flower of Yarrow.—Alary Scott, so well known in tradition and in song by tbe title of '* The Flower of Yarrow, was a native of the parish of Yarrow. She was the daughter of John ...

Published: Monday 21 April 1834
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3946 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Express the Times with the report of the dinner given to Earl Grey, at Edinburgh, deserves notice, for few

... of the Reading Horticultural Dinner, as well the list of prizes awarded at the last show, which took place on Tuesday, at the Hall. The gaiety and brilliancy the flowers, and luxuriance ofthe fruit, almost surpassed any of the previous exhibitions. Amongst ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1834
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1113 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The arrival London o

... negroes this place of resort is something like Hyde park, place for show. Their dress in general borders extravagance. The women wear bonnets decorated with ribands, plumes, and flowers, of a thousand different colours, and their dresses are of the most ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1835
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3956 | Page: 1 | Tags: none