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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 

DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE

... for trespassing in a wood belong- isg to the Misses Starkey, of Hatton Hall, and taking therefrom, on the 4th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of Gd or thereabouts. 'The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the defendant mnore than once ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1864
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3806 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... Brasehouse Peaage, ?? from a compound fracture of the right leg, caused by felling down a bank in Green Lane, while gathering blackberries. Yesterdayevening William Uathewr, whip maker, agedthirty-one, residing in Cregoe Street, was taken to the Hospital with ...

Published: Monday 12 September 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4067 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

COUNCILS EXAMINED

... aside, and though they had three Popes, they got rid of Pope John and brought up Martin V. Why, Popes were as numerous as blackberries. ,(Laughter.) They smiled at that, but it was a matter of great grief that a man should stand up and say how glorious it ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1869
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3629 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGNCE._

... Sunday . Plfternoon, a boy named John Wright, aged about 14, adl his little sister, aged only three years, Vere gathering blackberries adjacent to th6 Parr Copper Weor;s, and near to the Sankey Brook, in Parr when the Child dropped her basket into the brook ...

Published: Tuesday 06 October 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3821 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Birmingham Daily Post

... affirmative he would stop the supplies, create new Peers till Lords shall become as common and cheap in England as the blackberries on the hedges, or even, as a last extremity, he should vote for the total abolition of ?? Lords, as an obsolete old ...

Published: Monday 16 July 1860
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3938 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Birmingham Daily Post

... out to sea Nvith half their proper crews, and prophecies of the decadence of English naval supremacy were as plentiful as blackberries. It turns out that all these depressing assurances were. the merest creations of disordered fancy. Instead of relinquishing ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4160 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... as it may, they leave the bushes very naked wherever they visit. Cures, or methods of preventure, are as plentiful as blackberries, but, unfortunately, such cures are liable to fail. Alum, lime, hellebore, broom, and elder have all been praised as perfect ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3406 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... general victory for their cause. I ati sure their families will fell ttauikfusl, The ectrates-tite succall fryv soil geuertel blackberry, bcttecera of the Eatablishuitmcit-Nvil also0 expo- riene e soice reliof thr~ough this stitiden1 colltt1so of their cause ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2909 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... worsted round its throat, and then abandoned it in a wood. The body, still warm, was found by some lads ?? were gathering blackberries. James P. Brice ?? Scott, who were convicted at the last Liverpaool Asslzes of the outrageous attack on Dr. Rowe, and sentesced ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1864
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3976 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4

... contracted spirit. If there arc no blackberry hedges, what, re the boys of the coming time to do? We tremble to think of a generation of men who in their boyhood never went blaekberrying, The X boy who has no blackberries in him may be ex- peoted to grow ...

Published: Monday 04 October 1869
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7953 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LANDLORDS AND TENANTS AGREEMENT

... notice to quit ' without rhyme or reason, but that was a great mistake, for really good tenants were not as plentiful at blackberries, and when landlords once met with them they were very anxious to retain them on their estates. In the great majority of ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1865
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4146 | Page: 3 | Tags: News