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A DAY OR TWO AT BLACKPOOL

... and the latter not so aristocratic. in summeri it is 'a densely peopled 6ity-in winter a desert. It's en awful place in winter, Sir, saidad barber to me'; I [always leeVb' it then, arid open a shop at Poultonr, four miles off. Coaches' from allparts ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1839
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2833 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A Voice from the Fylde

... acquaintance, as to the laying out and planting of their grounds; thus conferring a benefit, not only on the possessor, bet also on every be- holder. Being at the same time a man of plain, simple, and diligent habits, he formed an exact opposite to the bulk ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1841
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1829 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FIVE LIVES LOST IN A SEWER IN LONDON

... FIVE LIVES LOST IN A SEWER IN LONDON. Yesterday night week, a fatal accident of the most melancholy and distressing kind took place in that por- tion of Pimlico called Willow-walk, and where a number of new streets are at present in progress of completion ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1849
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 911 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A SWINDLER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

... Mr. Richard Yates's shop. ' a The 'fayor;:' Was that previous, or subsequently, to v obtaining the portmanteau? 't Mr. Dodd: Previous to-, the portmanteau being taken away. The Mayor said there might be a question whether a anything done after the portmantea ...

REV. THOMAS HUGO, B.A

... lihely sense of your atfecttonate remembrance or me. tol Your gift a most unteresting to ma for many reasons, a few of which Ito would now briefly enumerato. And first I take it ns a prnof of your attachment to our toly Catholic our nvid Apat~lcieChurch ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1844
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2211 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

. , • „a„,jakk 4111 21111!e, – ' '

... imitate their infantine manner, instead of addressing them in properlanguage? A bachelor bagman, in driving one day, came up to a woman carrying a child, who asked, in a polite manner, a ride The bagmarvagreed to do so, on the condition that ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1842
Newspaper: Preston Pilot
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6599 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

QUARTERLY COUNCIL MEETING. A Quarterly Meeting of the Council was held at the Town Hall, Thursday last. Prettit ..

... not market day. There was a butcher, with meat; and for a stand about half the width of the table, and about four yards in length, he paid y*. a week—2s. 3d. a yard, rent—something like £23 a year. That would one disadvantage of ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1842
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4445 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CULTIVATION OF MOSSES

... church, a handsome building, (designed by Smirke,) with a Gothic spire, and near it is the village of Astley. Further east, on a woody eminence, is Worsley Hall, the seat of R. H. Bradshaw, Esq. In the intermediate space, and near the road, a plantation ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 823 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

. I in this instance by tie fact, that the stock on the was insured to the extent of £10,000;

... destroyed, 'tor griller with a large quantity of sugars, cheese, coffee. Rm. 'rite proprietors arc to the amount of £BOOO. regrPt to learn that a ease of fraud has been committed upon one of the banks in this neighbourhood, of a very serious kind, anti the ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1842
Newspaper: Preston Pilot
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

tOr Jid usr

... inert. words. *ad looks a cloudless worth, brighter. of hoot that whole ell b.lbt ou earth. . . ref-- would the charge Mod not—l the spe,l had ithqed 11011111 i the loaf oy thief,' I heed, where childhood's lootalep• steal) A ; I often yto weer* slim ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1842
Newspaper: Preston Pilot
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

To tko Editor of the Presto* Chronicle

... *ne in thinking that the time I* quite arrived, when town like this, boaatinfi of *o large and influential a population, *hould lie provided with a public building (and that 100 very eztentive scale) for the promotion of intellectual and innocent recreation ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1842
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPORTING

... el. c. Chit Chat, 4 yrs ?? llon. E. M. LI. MIostyn's Birdlime ?? Major llealey's chl. g. brother to Van, 4 yrs ?? Lord Derby's ro. c. Parolles, 4 yrs ?? A MAIDEN PL.ATE, value 60 sovs., from the Racing for all ages. Heats, once round and a distance. Mir ...