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HARD WORK AND EARLY MARRIAGE

... James Richards, and two grandchildren. There was a family reunion on Monday, at which the health of the couple was drunk in blackberry wine, prepared by Mrs. Richards, who is very proud of her recipe for the beverage. She has another recipe, too, for a long ...

Published: Friday 29 March 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 481 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEWS OF THE WEST

... wheeled bier is housed in Inwardleigh Village for the purpose of a public mortuary in the event of air raid casualties. Ripe blackberries have been gathered in the parish. Farmers have completed their hay harvest. A great bulk of it has been saved in good condition ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 7962 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOLIDAY WORK FOR YOUTH

... commons; bracken-pulling; leaf mould and cone collecting; wood collecting and chopping; fruit picking (whortleberries and blackberries, as well as assisting commercial producers); salvage; making woodwork and needlecraft articles for the Rid Cross, Forces ...

Published: Friday 09 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEWS OF THE WEST

... order to keep the children ■ occupied, and. the same ; happy. Excursions have been made to many places order to collect blackberries, billberries, and fir cones, etc. POCGHILL.—There was a crowded atten' dance at Poughill schoolroom on Friday. when an ...

Published: Friday 09 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 7290 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEWS OF THE WEST

... headmirtres Miss Ryall. and assistant mistress Miss Darch. they have been going round with handcart. They intend iO pick blackberries and slicks. CHAGFORD.—Members of the St. Michael's Church Sunday School had their annual outing when a picnic tea was ...

Published: Friday 09 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4391 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

UFFCULME BOYS' FARM WORK

... C. Doidge. the headmaster, that 2.500 hours were put in farm work and 40 hours allotments. They have picked 1-30!bs. of blackberries and collected bones worth 145.. paper valued metal £6, besides rags. ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE SHIPS THAT ARE SAVED

... says. One day when I was a boy. I was going pick blackberries with ; number of friends. My father called me back. My son.' he said, are you going pick blackberries, or to play 0 ' 'To pick blackberries.' I replied. 'Well, then, do not run away when you ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1462 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEWS OF THE WEST

... ready go to the mills. The evacuee youngsters at Moretonhampstead are busily engaged in the picking of whortleberries and blackberries. NEWTON ABBOT. The two-day junior lawn tennis tournament, held at Forde Park. Newton Abbot, aid of charities, concluded ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2850 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CANNING OF SURPLUS FRUIT

... jam. chiefly plum, but also rhubarb and raspberry jam, and mulberry, apple and quince jellies. They hope soon to start on blackberries. The process is efficient and simple. Apparatus consist a canner —a small machine with a handle which presses on the covers ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ROUND THE MARKETS

... lettuce Id each, tomatoes and lOd lb., cabbages 2d each, peas 3d lb., kidney beans Id lb., raspberries Is 2d and Is 6d, blackberries 6d, plums Id to 3d, do, (Victoria) 4d to 6d lb. TOTNES.—Potatoes (old) 2s score, do. (new) 71b. for 9d, green peas 3d and ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1441 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BIDEFORD MARKET

... lb., plums 3d to lb., eating apples 2'd lb., marrows 3d 5d each, beetroot 2d each (cooked), grapes (local-grown) 2s lb., blackberries lb., pears lb., honey ,'bottled) 2s lb., do. (sections) 2s 6d each, damsons 4d lb., greengages 6d lb. ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RAIDER CRASHES IN SOUTH-WEST

... SOUTH-WEST Incident Witnessed By Blackberry-Pickers GERMAN bomber, which was pursued a British fighter, crashed through a hedge into a field in the Southwest where two mothers of children evacuated from London were picking blackberries. The drone of the 'plane ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 5 | Tags: none