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SPELTHORNE COURSING CLUB, HOME Park Meeting

... won the cup. The WSLLINGTON STAKES; all ages. 3ir. Batt's Blackberry beat Mr. J. Bird's Buttermilk Dir. NV. Long's Sophia ?? Mr. Saxton's Sussex DIr. IV. Long's Sophia beat Mr. Batt's Blackberry, and won the stakes. PEDIGREES OF TilE WINNERS. DAVID, by ...

Published: Sunday 14 December 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1685 | Page: 13 | Tags: Sports and Games 

NOTES OF THE CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES

... the Cruel Uscte, a subject by no means new to the sphere of Pantomime, but here treated after a novel manner. The scene of Blackberry Grove, where the wood nymphs appear, and where the wild mani shuts up tile fairy of the forest in the trunk ol a large oak ...

Published: Sunday 21 December 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3830 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Advertisements & Notices

... Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE BABES IN THE WOOD; or, Harlequin and the Creel Uncle. The scenery of Ih opening wills the Blackberry Brake, the Apotbhoose of the Babes in the Wood, &a, painted by Mr. William Callnott; the music composed and arranged by ...

Published: Sunday 28 December 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 5212 | Page: 1 | Tags: Advertisements & Notices 

THE CHRISTMAS BURLESQUES AND PANTOMIMES

... acting to the fun of the opening. The scenery excited considerable admiration, and was frequently and londly applauded. The Blackberry Brake in the golden haze of Autumn, and the Fields of Light, particularly drew down peals of applause, and Mr. Buckstone ...

Published: Sunday 28 December 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 15342 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

THE PANTOMIMES AND THEIR Progress

... one for the children, exhibits Mr. Callcott's talents as a scenic artist in a prominent light, and the autumnal view of Blackberry Brake is one of those landscapes that the eye loves to linger on. The Caslsuies are very graceful dancers; Milano is brisk ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1857
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3135 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly

... rurallife, nearly faultlese. The second best picture in the room is a little unpretending beauty (numbered 340), Gathering Blackberries, Eliza Adams. This is a bi'jou, a perfect gem, and must become a favourite of every visitor to the gallery. There are souse ...

Published: Sunday 04 April 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 990 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE EASTER AMUSEMENTS

... descending daggers, the rescues, combats, deeds of heroic bravery, and feats of femrafle heroism that blossom, thick as blackberries, in every scene, Wve should be accecused of dealing in hyperbole instead of sober fact. We would, therefore, advise every ...

Published: Sunday 11 April 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 16469 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FREEMASONRY

... efficacy. Detergents, or substances for cleansing silk and woollen fabrics, have been for the last thirty years as plenty as blackberries, from the salts of sonrel, to turpentine disguised with oil of lemons there has been no end to such professing evasers ...

Published: Sunday 01 August 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1436 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LAW AND POLICE

... Prisoner said he got his living, and had a very good con- nexion, by gathering wild apples, acorns, mushrooms, sloes, and blackberries. He denied throwing the meat down; he put it down very quietly for the purpose of saying what he knew to his Heavenly Father ...

Published: Sunday 21 November 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3620 | Page: 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THEATRES, &c

... the ballad, is bare softened dosvn to a mere temporary indisposi- tion arising from a too heartily-enjoyed banquet upon blackberries. A little of the fairy element is introduceed by the transformation of the corps de ballet into a flock of fairy-birds ...

Published: Sunday 24 July 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2389 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... Houleton and Wright, Paternoster-Tow. A capital number is the one before us, and though the articles of contents hang like blackberries on an autumn bush, all ripe and tempting, the very abundance confounds us, and our appetite, cloyed in the general taste ...

Published: Sunday 10 June 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3399 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR. MAYALL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC Exhibition

... MR. M1YAL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC Exbibition. Exhibitions of works of art and paintings are common on the hedges of life as blackberries in antnimn, and though our collections of home and foreign pictures, in both water and oil, are beautiful as they are familiar ...

Published: Sunday 19 August 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture