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GATHERING BLACKBERRIES

... GATHERING BLACKBERRIES. Our party of autumn wanderers have arrived at a fruitful spot. With what eager glee they swoop clown upon the brambles, laden with blackberries! This is the children's own harvest in the country, the real wild vintage of Old England ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1870
Newspaper: Illustrated Midland News
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

GATHERING BLACKBERRIES

... GATHERING BLACKBERRIES. certainly claim distinction for the courtesy °f its servants, and generally for its excellent tnlanent way. The service from London to I.llllinghara is admirable, and the new Station w w!ll be welcomed by the public generally, ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1870
Newspaper: Illustrated Midland News
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 602 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

ILLUSTRATIONS CONTINUED— Church Stretton ; The Light Spout Waterfall , ~from Ragleth . . Cobbe, Frances Power . .

... Friends, Our . . Filey Brig . . . . Francesca of Rimini, and Paolo Malatesta, Death of . Frigate Birds, Shooting . Gathering Blackberries . Gay, Jemima Golden Fleece, Blasting of the Greta Bridge Guernsey, The Vale Church „ Great Cromlecb, at Harp of Invermorn ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1870
Newspaper: Illustrated Midland News
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

A GRIM HOUSE

... to him, bat then was in the old days of flippant House of Commons led by a flippant leader, when jokes were as plenty as blackberries, and the First Ministerof tbe Crown regarded the first question of the day chiefly as a joke. But now wc have got an earnest ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1870
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 628 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MR. BICKLEY'S CONCERT

... lover oi coursethe dlvine art can never be -out of season; but, then, genuine music lovers are not exaotly as plentiful as blackberries, and the Towii Hall is a large place to fill. Need we add, that it ,was not filled on this occasion? The audience was ...

LOOK AHEAD

... security and honesty. But it is one thing to resolve to insure; it is another to select company. Agents arc as plentiful blackberries in the autumn, and companies, ranging from the moat reliable to the moat dishonest, flourish on all sides. To insure in ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1870
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE MIDLAND INSTITUTE. EXCURSION OF THE ARCHXOLOGICAL SECTION

... to right and left before us and the Vale of the Teme behind. We strolled along pleasantly, staying now and then to pluck blackberries from the hedges, until we reached Little Malvern. According to the programme there was no place to be visited he re but ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1870
Newspaper: Illustrated Midland News
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1796 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NOTES ON DISTRICT MATTERS

... this great piece of cookery being vaguely connected in the popular mind with times when roasted oxen were as common as blackberries in England, and when the public tapping of hogsheads of ale was a matter of every-day occurrence. It is a mark of the ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1870
Newspaper: Aris's Birmingham Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1091 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FROM OL'B PARIS CORRESPONDENT

... supplanted something akin despair. If France could only find Gambetto for the military difficulty. The tu*-a are plentiful blackberries, the tobacco-rifle is l-eing replaced tha chassepot or snider, the bads grand army of threa million brave men exists, not ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1870
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1055 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COVENTRY MARKET HALL

... some portion of his body was visible. I found a tin in the water, and a small hooked stick. There were some fresh gathered blackberries lying about as though they had been spilled. The water is only a few inches deep.—The jury returned a verdict of Found ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1870
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1550 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

• • . • – _ – _ • . SKETCHES IN THE MIDLANDS DAYLIGHT AND GASLIGHT. No. V.—LEICESTER MARKET

... earthenware, furniture, sad( dery, and other articles. In the summer the villagers flock to the mark et with baskets of fruit, blackberries, mushroon is, and flowers. These humble vendors pay the small amount demanded of them for the privilege of exhibiting their ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1870
Newspaper: Illustrated Midland News
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1971 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCRAPS

... and in mellow garden soil of almost any kind that has been long cultivated. As for the more robust kinds, they are like blackberries and raspberries—at home in any soil that will grow a cauliflower, and, if cut down to the ground by frost or knife, capable ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1870
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2406 | Page: 3 | Tags: none