... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...