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HARVEST FESTIVALS

... top of the . font there was neatly arranged a quantity of choice I flowers, interwoven with ivy, and corn, and bunches of blackberries. The pulpits were decorated in front with small bunches of corn, entwined with flowers, and had a very pretty appearance ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1878
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2982 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... the provisions of the Vaceination Aets have been £C60 moat rigidly enforced, there will smallpox be as pleniti- ful as blackberries. To prove this true Ineed oily men. ?? ton Louaon, Blirmingham,, Liverpool, ltanh-ester Sl Blackburn, and Preston, the ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1877
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2779 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... prisoner in Bedford gaol. Up hill, through th, some Devonshire lanes, in one of which a sturdy-legged of girl was gathering blackberries. Of course I spoke fr to her, and was answered in a dialect broader even than we the Dorsetshire. I had better not attempt ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5686 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

RAMBLES BY THE RIBBLE

... hur~sbed in random luxuriance, and which Was -also fre- Oth ud quont in the neighbouring hedges. The bramible, or 6th Ite blackberry family (Rusbus), bad also several representa- ver tives: Te wood straberry (FIragaria ve.5ca) was abtin- 8utt ld dant. It ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3126 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... Hazel nuts are so plentiful that they sell at 6d per measure, the farmers bringing them to I e the market by the cartload. Blackberries are plenti- I fml, but fully one-half of the crop has not ripened; E a many of the berries are green yet, and some of the ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1890
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3309 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL PARTIES AND THEIR UNDULATIONS

... Banbury Board of Guardians, on Thurs- day, complained that the people in that district J did not gather and preserve hedge blackberries- said they entirely despised eating young nettles, and did not use turnip tops as food. What an awful impeachment ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1878
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3054 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... climb after it, a feat not at all cal- culated to make you happy if you are wearing knicker- bockers, and there are any blackberry plants in the fence. A sharp walk of a mile brought me to the intelligent man, whose kindness had saved me from a weary ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3223 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... children, and rose to exhibit them sittiig on a bank, worn out with tbeir wanderings, the boy fieding his ?? sister with a hugs blackberry. made out of countless shoe buttons, tied together in a bunch of suitable size. Brobdignag robins were watching the children ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1883
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2840 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... me from her country homes is Cumn. ?? berland, telling of sorme dinner parties sie leas teen giving. or and saying that blackberry ltaves and white wax berries e-(by which I suppose slhe means the milk-white fruit of the, ?? bush sprnilehoriee ?? were ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1882
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2926 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... After walking two or three miles down the muddy, but very beautiful, lane, occasionally stopping to gather a few ripe blackberries, or to inhale the perfume of some little wild flower, a still narrower lane led away sol thwards. A small sign-board informed ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3220 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... that ripe blackberries are now frequently to be found in the hedge-rows in this part of Devonshire and the borders X of Somerset. On the last day of the old year a youth I called Nelder, of this town, picked a very fine bunch of . ripe blackberries on Exeter-hill ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 10035 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IN SHAMROCK LAND.—V

... ione'daahedinto the sea beloi without turning- B bair. WV:ont througlh narrow lanes like graiteeb' lilJning, sweeping the blackberries ?? vwith abr feet, sn . actually smile. iva miles aovered and we dismount in order to vii-iu'aricaRede, A -small boy .rofers ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1893
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2824 | Page: 2 | Tags: News