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... 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 BRIMINGTON CHILD MURDER

... daU respectable man, who was foreman at some ir '- i £I**™* the neighbourhood. On the 20th August the. Windle was out blackberrying with some chiW half-past nine in the morning prisoner trundling Ids barrow, and about ten o'clp * these children, and the ...

Published: Thursday 03 November 1881
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1235 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ROYAL INSTITUTION

... , £2 2s. Allington Castle, Kent (A. L. Hewlett), £2 25.; The Gipsy Path, near Douglas, Isle of Man (S. Brown), £3 3s. ; Blackberry Gatherers, a scene Surrey (H. Stanuard), £5; Waiting for tho Ferry-boat (Miss Jessie Bowkctt), 45.; A Little Help is Worth ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1338 | Page: 5 | 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

A VICAR IN EBONY

... uplifting rampant grape-vine ; then corner upon corner crowded with fragrant sassafras,and over and under the all-pervading blackberry, starred now and then with stems houey-locust and red berries of wild rose. Dick and his fallows have ueed of strength and ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7321 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sales Auction, No. 45, Princess-street.—Sale of Capital Household Furniture and Effects, comprising Walnut ..

... Dozen of First-class Home-made Wines, comprising Ginger, Cowslip, Orange, Raisin, Cherry, Elderberry, Currant, Mabnsey, Blackberry, Dandelion, Citronelle, Gooseberry, Grape, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Parsnip, Damson, and British Port, Sherry, and Claret. RTINGSTALL ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 2169 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE POMONA HORSE SHOW

... by T. S. Cooper, R.A., 1851, 140 guineas (Vokins); The Primrose Gatherers, by Birket Foster, 220 guineas (Brown); The Blackberry Gatherers. the companion, by Birket Foster, 163 guineas (Brown); Sigalling a Pilot, by G. Chambers, 1335jW)0 guineas ...

Published: Monday 08 May 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5455 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EN PASSANT

... Association than an outsider. This view will most likely be that of the majority of the members who attend the general meeting. blackberries in aatnmn, or outrages in Ireland the present time, are the records of wonderful performances with bat and ball. Massie’s ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1882
Newspaper: Athletic News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5574 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A MEDIEVAL PIC-NIC

... amidships, until ye brave Hans Bannermann, himself a host of legions, did forth straightway bring unto them ye bottle of blackberry brandy* the which they did partake thereof and straightway were made well, so that they went forth to their homes.' There ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1338 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CUTTINGS FROM PUNCH

... head. War Correspondents' Inventiveness.—The Gay Street Nomenclature (cliangc of name). —Melbury Road to bo in future Blackberry Road. Government War Song propes of the militia). Wo mean to do without theml FiiOi'OSEu School for Smokers.—Cavendish ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

... which was granted.—The accused is parish schoolmaster at Shottlo. Sad Death of a Crimean Hero. —As some children wore blackberrying near a railway arch at Seabrook, Folkestone, they found the dead body of man lying under a bush. Information was at once ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4595 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WIT AND HUMOUR

... himself. Large ears indicate patience and • Witness the donkey and jack rabbit. People say that blackberries are good m complexion; but who wants a blackberry One who thinks he knows all about says the best way to raise strawberries is spoon. A gentleman ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1882
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1674 | Page: 10 | Tags: none