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WOKINGHAM MARKET

... lbs., blue plums Is. 3d. per 12 lbs., apples in abundance, from 4d. to 9d. per 5 lb. lots, runner beans lOd. per 6 lbs., blackberries per lb., marrows 2s. per doz., etc. HALL’S WOKINGHAM CATTLE. EGG, POULTRY ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1939
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

WOKINGHAM MARKET

... per doz., pears 6d. to Is. 3d. per bag, runner beans 3d. to 6d. per bag, apples 4d. to 9d. per bag, tomatoes ss. per box, blackberries 3d. to 4d. per lb., lettuce 9d. per doz., cauliflowers Is. 7d. to 2s. Id. per doz., etc. HALL’S WOKINGHAM CATTLE. EGG, ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1939
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

MORTIMER

... Pte. H. Nicholson, Windmill Road, has died in his country’s service. He leaves a widow. During last week less than cwt. blackberries were collected in Mortimer, for use by the Ministry Food. Large quantities were gathered, addition, for private jam-making ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

READING BOB.OUGH BENCH

... heifers stray iir Grovolands Hoad, Defendant said that the animals escaped from his field through a gap made children blackberrying. added that the police should keep an ©ye upon the place, but the Chief Constable interpolated “The police are iu the' ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SPORTING AND COUNTRY NOTES

... th© opening day of tii© aeaaon. a temperature of degrees ui the shad© and tun temperature of over 120 degs. In Surrey tb© blackberry harvest stated I* th© largest for the past years. Some pickers have gathered 401 b. in the course of * day. hulkiog railed ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1911
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STORMS AND FLOODS

... aud drains becoming blocked, floods were result. Throughout South Buckinghamshire there is much potato disease: and the blackberry crop is failure. Heavy rains are causing serious floods in the Wey Valley. At Guildford the roadway in Millmead, a low-lying ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1903
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 364 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COLONIAL NOTES

... compared with last year. A new and unexpectisi evil has arisen in Australia, already well burdened with the rabbit plague. Blackberry brambles are rapidly overrunning vast areas of oountry, and are becoming serious pest the farmer. The War Office has ordered ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1901
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Officials and Military Service

... up their full ration of sugar every week ? Miffht T that some scheme should be devised by -which tlie enormous crops of blackberries, fast ripening now, utilised. Many old people living alone cannot gather them; could not they sau© sugar and receive in ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ST. HELENA OF TO-DAY

... all sides: geraniums, Arum lilies and other flowers growing wild and in profusion all sides. Never have I seen so many blackberries as there are here, and never seem to come to an end. Our hot weather is just commencing (December and January being our ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1900
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 407 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Goring

... Mrs. R. West and Mrs. Redford. It was announced that the competition next month will be for the best home-made 1 lb pot of blackberry jelly. The profit from the summer fete amounted to £ll 14s. 4d. Miss Brice-Miller made an appeal for hospital requisites ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1939
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 432 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

WOKINGHAM

... months ago, now killed in action. More Blackberriee. Notwithstanding that the schools were supposed have completed their blackberrying excursions last week, a farther effort has been made response appeal for 200 more tons before the season closes. The scholars ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPORTING AND COUNTRY NOTIB

... enppi© athleUo champion. Newport, Monday swam from Newbridge Newport—a distance of II nulca—in hours and four unnute>. Blackberries arc \crv alnmdant, and much sc. and mors per day is often earned by gatherers. The apple crop prospect* kro poor owing ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1911
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 3 | Tags: none