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FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER

... alternately upon the sides are branches of stamped velvet leaves of several shades of green, mixed with small bunches of blackberries. These same berries, mixed with moss-rose buds and china pinks, of pink velvet with crape leaves, form the inside trimming ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1853
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1280 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM

... whose courts require the skilful hand and educated eye decorate the greater portion. Clean house painters arc plentiful blackberries in autumn, but skilful and educated artfsts do not appear to quite common. the same tune it must observedftat some of tlie ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1854
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3795 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FANCIES

... picture London damsels gathering primroses or violets on the rising ground about the office Household Words, or hunting for blackberries on the site of Exeter Hall, or sitting to rest on the green sward where Drury Lane Theatre now stands. Marylebone was then ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1855
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1768 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FANCIES

... us to the Rule of Three, if ozs. cost Id., now much will lib. I cost ? Answer, 4d. Knowledge at 4d. per lb., cheap as blackberries. It is fortunate that the test one of weight, and not of measure, or we might have had to search for two intellectual ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2038 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WAR IN ASIA

... [hear, hear.] His steam engines, again, were considered most ridiculous, but now steam engines on farms were as common as blackberries. Formerly there was a strong belief in that locality that deep cultivation was injurious, but there had been a great change ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1855
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1371 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FANCIES

... temporarily sea-sick, and then he becomes permanently sick of the sea. The truth is, Willie soon discovers reasons plentiful as blackberries for thinking less highly of sailors than people do on shore. We talk of the jolly Jack Tar, and our gallant blue jackets ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1855
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2021 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

COUNTY MAGISTRATES' CHAMBER

... walking along the road, some distance from the house, she met Rogers and Clayton, two of the prisoners, picking the hedge for blackberries, as she thought. One of them asked her what time it was, and she replied very nearly two o'clock. She passed on; and ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1855
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 858 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FANCIES

... characters, To Disembodied men. Blackjberries not so Plenty.—Blackberries have been selling in Liverpool at higher prices than damsons, the prices per quart being, for blackberries, 5d., for damsons 4d, and plums 3d. The Fifth of Novemher, —A New ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1855
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1676 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RATE FOR THE RURAL POLICE

... and walked towards the next cottage about a quarter of a mile distant; she saw the prisoners Clayton and Rodgers picking blackberries off the hedge in the road. Markham was met her afterwards. During the time the woman was absent from the cottage it was ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1856
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3122 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BERKS EPIPHANY SESSIONS

... walked towards the next cottage about a quarter of a mile distant; she saw the prisoners, Clavton and Kodgers, picking blackberries off the hedge in the road. Markham was met by her afterwards. During the time the woman was absent from the cottage, it ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1856
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12477 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BERKS EPIPHANY SESSIONS

... and the stolen pro perty was secure, aft that time. She went to a neighbour's house and saw'Clayton and Rodgers picking blackberries, who asked her what the time was. Soon after she saw Markham, and then went into the neighbour's house. Returning in about ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1856
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6406 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GUARDS’ DINNER ABSENTEES

... by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace. Discovery or a Supposep Tuesday afternoon, while some boys were blackberrying in Anerley Wood, a youth named Osborn got into a close thicket, and there, to his great horror, saw a man hanging from ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1856
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 13027 | Page: 3 | Tags: none