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BANK HOLIDAY IN NOTTINGHAM

... of watching the work of another wellknown battalion, the Ist Leicestershire Volunteers having taken up their quarters on Blackberry-hill on Saturday. Indeed, of outdoor events generally thero is no lack to-day, and, what with military encampments, flower ...

Published: Monday 06 August 1888
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 570 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VOLUNTEERS IN CAMP

... party also included Quartermaster Brooks, Sergeant-Major Frie, and seven sergeant instructors. A more suitable place than Blackberry- Hill, where the camp is situated, it would be difficult to find for the purpose. The broad expanse of table- land, well ...

Published: Monday 06 August 1888
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3834 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

tOWN HALL

... VOLONTEKDS. —The member, of the let Volunteer Battalion of the keicestsiehire Regiment left Leicester on Saturday afternoon for Blackberry Hill, near Belvoir Castle, which has again been placed at their disposal by the Duke of Rutland for the purpose of holding ...

Published: Monday 06 August 1888
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Post
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2907 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... exhibitors must have taken great pains to bring the flowers and fruit to such a state of perfection. He thought that the common blackberry ought to be cultivated. He had seen very large ones in the South of Eng- land, but they could be brought to still greater ...