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Ben Brierley's Journal

BEN BRIEBLEY'S JOURNAL

... azure have two, The remaining twain's flashing like diamonds— Ah ! no young men come, smitten, to woo Rustic swains are as blackberries common, But ain't quite the thing for fair dames; I wonder young sparks from the city Don't find in the country their flames ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1880
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BEN BRIERLEY'S JOURNAL. CHAPTER XVIII. FADING AWAY

... nil liven the up. The monnnt talk o' deein. Th' doctor towd ml afoor I come, she answered, sadly. He said, I met see blackberry time, an' that would be o.' Jim pressed her to his breast convulsively, and if his tears mingled with here it was no shame ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1880
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1106 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LANCASHIRE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

... from the Graphic, is from a photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry, 55, Baker Street, London. Warix young ladies go out blackberrying they should be careful where they stand. A toung lady living not far from Mohawk went one day, and it so happened that ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1880
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 828 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

head the seat, hung her umbrella

... above the musical inflictions of her donkey. Moston was in its primitive state, and its land was largely productive of blackberries and rushes. But a new landlord had come upon the scene, and a change for the better was to be inaugurated. Farms were to ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1881
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2466 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE raFT

... were to see my dissolute condition, and that one animal amongst them had in his bit of a body a heart as big itself as a blackberry, I think he would be after lending me, for two or three hours, one of them purses that is as full of yellow gold as a beehive ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1882
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 792 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RE-ISSUE OF THE EARLIER WORKS OF BEN 1:BIERI.E1'. MARLOCKS OF MERRITON. THE BOGGART OF FAIRY BRIDGE

... muscular form which developed itself in week-day jollity and Sabbath heart-worship ; when I edge-backings were laced with blackberry brambles, and footpaths were not stopped by greedy landowners; when cans chinked at the well, and the broad village green ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1882
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 637 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SEPTZ3O3IIB 1, 18/A BEN BRIERLEY'S JOURNAL. AB-O'TH'-YATE AT TH' OWDHAM SHOW. BY AB RIMEL

... t' show what interest even young ladies wi' kid. covered bonds takken o sorts o' machinery, I seed one of abeaut fifteen blackberry times takkin a lesson fro' a eighty-four-inch-cylindered alderman on th' best meeans o' dooin away wi' smooke. Th' way at ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1883
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1738 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE LANCASHIRE DIALECT

... lane that led from the farmyard to the pasture meadows, and was called the 'cow-gate,' or the cow lone.' These lanes at blackberry time were so many vineyards to US ; but rarely had we access to them except by clandestine means. The old weaver I have ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1883
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1936 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

BEN BRIERLEY'S JOURNAL. LOFTY MEDITATIONS; Olt, A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF FAILSWORTH. BY SIM SCHQFTELD

... Close by these extensive gas works stands (in Failsworth) the Hollinwood Spinning Company. When a lad I used to gather blackberries on the gronnd where these places now are. What a Wonderful change has been wroneht hi this dialed within the last twenty ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1883
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 764 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AB-0711%YATE WITH TILE PRINCE OF WALES IN LRELAND. BY AB HISSEL. (Continued from our last.) Baskin' ethiroyal ..

... nowt nobbut th' safety o' my skin, as it isno' pleasant walkin' through th' Jones wi' a face that looks as if it war anlus blackberry time. I'd made up my mind, as we had to go to Ireland on our own hook,— why hook I dunno' know, but gentlefolk uaen th' ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1885
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1586 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

JUNE 20.16m3

... manner, that I understood not its significance at first, nor, indeed, until years after. It happened that we were out blackberrying together until late in the afternoon, and we had fasted all the time. But I had partaken of a good breakfast previous ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1885
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2292 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Rough on rats—rat terriers. A black mailer—the negro postmaster. Can a leased pair of boxing gloves be called ..

... is at home hanging out the washing in her shirt sleeves. I see, said a Stockton housewife to a dealer, that you have blackberries for sale? Yes, ma'am. It 4asby a scratch I got them. One of the possibilities of future warfare' will be blowing up ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1885
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 409 | Page: 4 | Tags: none