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BARNET FAIR

... fair annual holiday, and seek fresh air in the green pastures of Barnet, pursued their pleasurable vocation of gathering blackberries aud acorns under great adversities. The card-sharping fraternity and the pickpockets were largely represented. The application ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1870
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED CONVICT

... the fiaida, reached Piddletown, a village five miles from Dorchester. There he was secured as he was in the act of picking blackberries in a lane. He was wearing the prison shoes and stockings and the clotkes which he had stelen on the very night of his escape ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Evening Express
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 348 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BUSHEY

... into particulars, we would observe that the candlesticks of the pulpit were decorated very chastely with wild hop, ripe blackberries, a wild crab, and acorns. POLICE STATION, September 5. Before the Rev. W. Falconer and C. Dale, Esq. DRINK AND RIOTOUS ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1870
Newspaper: Watford Observer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 447 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PETTY SESSIONS,—September 6

... a bricklayer, yet he never followed that calling, but went begging in London, and when in the country gathere«i slo s, blackberries, nuts, and mushrooms, and sent the boy begging. He now and then did a day’s hay-making. The man said that he came from ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1870
Newspaper: Watford Observer
County: Hertfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 473 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CAPTURE OF A RUN A WA Y CONVICT

... informed the county police, who pursued him. At Paddletown, five mites off, constable reported a suspicious mss then picking blackberries, and had him fetched. He wearing the stolen clothes and orison slippers and soda He was handcuffed, and tried escajie, ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1870
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Reviews

... Mrs. J. M. Parker. Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, Crown-buildings, Fleet-street. Story-books for boys are plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and they range tinder three classes, good, indifferent, and bad. Thoao of latter class been issued with no niggard ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1870
Newspaper: Islington Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 636 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CAPTURE OF A RUNAWAY CONVICT,

... informed the county police, who pursued him. At Puddletown, five miles off, a constable reported a suspicious man then picking blackberries, and had him fetched. He was wearing the stolen clothes and prison slippers and socks. He was handcuffed, and tried to ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1870
Newspaper: Sun (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 697 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WOOL MARKET

... annual h y and picnic, and seek fresh air in the green past es of 3arnet, grouped, and ursued their vocation of collecting blackberries and acorns, under Application of gingerbread stall-keepers, &c., to continue the fair till Saturday tn consequence of the ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1870
Newspaper: Cambridge Independent Press
County: Cambridgeshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 779 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPORTING NEWS

... got intimation of his escape. At Puddletown, which is five miles from Dorchester, Beaumont was arrested whilst picking blackberries. He was attired at the time in the clothes he had stolen from the hotel, and wore a surplice, which he had taken from the ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1870
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LOOKER-ON IN LONDON.-No. XXI

... Englishmen is very unsavoury just now in the French nostrils. Even in Paris, where our countrymen have been as plentiful as blackberries-in those particular quarters of the city, that is say, which they affect-the dislike of the lower classes to us has at ...

BRISTOL EMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES

... fiuit lying under them ; good large sweet apples they feed the cows upon. We have had large quantity wild raspberries, blackberries, &c. ; grape vines clinging around oaks, &c, with tine clusters of fruit. The average price of laud here is 100 dols. per ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1870
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1020 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE FARMERS' JOURNAL

... picnic, and seek fresh air in the green pastures of Barnet, grouped, and pursucd their pleasurable vocation. of collecting blackberries and acorns, under difficulties. Application ef ginger- bread &¢., to the fair tii] Saturday, in consequence of the unfavourable ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1870
Newspaper: Bucks Herald
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1160 | Page: 3 | Tags: none