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A CENTURY AGO

... intrusion in our snug parlour, one lady knitting, the other netting,and the gentleman winding worsted, when to our unspeakable surprise a mob appeared before the window ; a smart rap was heard at the door, the boys ballooed, and the maid announced Mr, Grenville ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1889
Newspaper: Midhurst and Petworth Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CUTTINGS FROM THE CHRISTMAS COMICS,

... helmet crammed with anything savoury in the cold hamand-veal pie line. He also kmew that although he had walked out with the parlour maid, he had borrowed half-a-sovereign from the cook—not returned. He gave him five shillings. It shook his nerves still more ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1889
Newspaper: Midhurst and Petworth Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE WOMAN’S WORLD

... arrayed in superbly laced coats, in magnificent waistcoate, in ents of plush, and in stockings of silk, while Ehyllis. the parlour-maid is habited in black and white like unto the magpie ? Inthe days of my youth, I am inclined to think, this was not the case ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1893
Newspaper: Midhurst and Petworth Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1661 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE WOMAN’S WORLD

... is for the parlour to set the example., There are miastresses for whom the minor morals—neatness, order, cleanliness, punctuality—have no attraction if to be exercised by themselves, They must take the consequances in the form of bad maids, and of husbands ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1893
Newspaper: Midhurst and Petworth Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1686 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CHAPTER XXXI, THE SEARCH FOR MORTIVWER

... Dropping across Andre the previous evening, looking terribly dull and out of sorts, Pincher had suggested a sojourn to the inn parlour. Andre, who seemed to have taken to the sociable convivially-inclined individual who, he said, was the only man in all that ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1893
Newspaper: Midhurst and Petworth Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 2273 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ENTERTAINMENT

... with references and e?enence to—Canpt. G. Lees, Falcutt House, near Brackley. Tel. Syresham 204. B 1 KITCHEN MAID required ; ailso kitchen maid to assist with diet cooking. Applications to—The Caxedm Officer, Horton General Hospi Banbury. A 662 msm}rs ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1956
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 516 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CSRTIY & AEXRON BUYER/FIRST SALES required in A ¥ & AENSOY |nnden-lmhlnw and corsetry. —Ap?l.\': Sales, ..

... n. atron : | NU “S and ) SMALL Geongian. RESIDRENCE (8] ¥ X rnr sy a Pe N tont miles North of Banbury) of brick and{oomapes MAID: WAITRESS for stone with slate roof. 5 bedrooms. 2{ ¢ oo blnln&i Room : also resident bathrooms, 3/4 reception rooms, Kitchen ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 1957
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1038 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SITUATIONS (Domestic)

... SITUATIONS (Domestic) WOMAN waated for cleaning, 2 or 3 morniags weekly.—l 7 Newland Road, B LS RESIDENT PARLOUR MAID requirad for director’s resid'nt near Leamingion Spa. Some experience essential. Generous salary, board md‘ annual bonas. Full di‘il ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 1957
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Honeymoon Cottage, Bodicote, sounds the perfect place to start a happy marriage and that is exactly what ..

... The Plough Inn, Bodicote, attended by friends and relatives from as far away as Brighton. Mrs Hayward, who worked as a parlour maid when she met her husband recalled: “‘I was out ridin, my bike on the Ox!ors Road with another girl. We saw Arthur who knew ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1979
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Inn of tragedy

... to Selsfield House. he hid on a ledge in the parlour chimney. Smoked out by a fire lit to dry the uniforms of the constabulary hunting him, he was captured and taken to Horsham gaol. Dorothy Miles and the maid died on the night of the attack. Richard Miles ...

Published: Friday 05 February 1982
Newspaper: Mid Sussex Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 409 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Golden couple’s Valentine surprise

... Mr Clements recalled. “The baker even had to come round on a sledge.” His wife worked first as a between maid at Ryecroft and then as a parlour maid at Luctons. The couple’s first home was in Sharpthorne. where they paid 2s 9d a week rent. “We used to ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1982
Newspaper: Mid Sussex Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 784 | Page: 2 | Tags: none