LOCAL NEWS

... had been long away, the increasing surf ren- y, dered their return impracticable, and they were warned off Iy by a huge bonfire. Night arrived, and the boat did not m return; and up to Thursday morning no tidings had been . l. heard of the men. It is greatly ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
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Birmingham Daily Post

... a court in Pritchett Street. It seems that on the 13th October the deceased was engaged in waxing some fireworks for bonfire night. While in this ant a wheel accidentally caught fire, and the un- fortunate woman threw it on to a table, where it ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1860
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4905 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LEEDS MERCURY

... November because it seemed more likely than any other night in the year to cause alarm, from the fact of its being bonfire night, when people, following a foolish custom, sit round out-door fires and throw crackers into the air, and when in their ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 898 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FATAL SHOOTING ON GUY FAWKES DAY

... prisonerhad anymaliceagainstthedeceased, but it was known that he owed a grudge to the jpoliceman, James Duckett, and that on bonfire night he had been heard to make some malicious remarks respect- inghim. Otiof these was, I'll break his head yet. On the night ...

Published: Sunday 15 December 1867
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 931 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... Time called, and no one at home. Bless the Prince of Wales. Mind, on the scoop and all over the shop now and then on a bonfire night; all's well; pss, friend; and good night. But on the march, no scoop; on the scoop, no march. Twiggez-vous ? Don't jeer ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1870
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1710 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DEPUTATION OF TRADES UNIONISTS TO MR. LOWE

... The Hospital was surrosnded by the friends 0; the injured and otiers, and the sight was one of a ;ery affecting nature. BONFIRE NIGHT IN BIRMINGHAM. The celebration of the anniversary of the famous Gunpovder Piot was carried out last night, in the ciustornary ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1873
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2563 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

OUR PARIS LETTER

... lady knows so well to conjure with, are absolutely banished, but are de- creed to-be only displayed on state days and 9 bonfire nights'; all offenders are to be ex- e eluded from 'the,' houses of the Puritans. The league aims. above all at street dresses ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1874
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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THE ROYAL VISIT TO WARWICKSHIRE

... appointed Mr. Wyatt supreme manager. It is rumoured that Ar. Francis has resigned, and that his resignation has been accepted. BONFIRE NIGHT IN BIRhMINGHAM. The celebration of Gunpowder Plot in Birmingham last night was remarkably quiet. But for the ocecsional ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1874
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3594 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

TOPICS OF THE WEEK

... meanwhile it would not be amiss to try the collier sinking, or die in the attempt. NOVEMBER has given us, as usual, our Bonfire Night and our Lord Mayor's Show. The first went off pretty amicably, thought a town mnd gown at Cambridge hits ended disastrously ...

Published: Sunday 14 November 1875
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1914 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

SOMETHING ABOUT CATTLE IN DAYS OF OLD

... manner of disease. i r To keep the witches at a distance there were various - .methods, And all of anproved value. On bonfire night t (3rd May, O.S.) small pieces of rowan-tree and wood- binse were placed over the byre doors inside the house. Sometimes ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1877
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1680 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

NEWS OF THE DAY

... aged twelve, the boy who shot a young girl dead, at Netherton, nvitli a gun that had been incautiously left loaded fromn bonfire night, was yesterday taken before the Dudley magistrates and discharged, there being 11o sugges- tion of nalice. At the saute ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1877
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4581 | Page: 5 | Tags: News