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IN BRIEF

... hold an Inter-club country ramble, on Sunday May 1. A member from Tarnworth reported on the Kraxy Social, held there on April Fools Day in aid of World- Refugee Year, when £l3 was raised. A sub-committee was set up to organise a second social In aid of ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1960
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3276 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Presentations at Armitage School An interesting ceremony took place ln the Croft County Prtmary School at ..

... training at Walsall on leaving school, was told of the appointment on Tuesday evening so that she would not believe it to be an April Fool's Day joke. A hospital spokesman told the Mercury on Wednesday that she could be the youngest sister on record although ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1964
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 381 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

ATHERSTONE

... Col. A. G. STUART, Rebottle, Northampton. Tel. Kingslingbury 483. MAKE A DATE I WHITTINGTON CHURCH FETE June 10th, 1967 APRIL FOOLS DANCE ALREWAS VILLAGE HALL SATURDAY, APRIL let 11-45 p.m. Admission 5/- to the Much to do about nothing GROUP. In ald of ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1967
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 66 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOLS DANCE

... APRIL FOOLS DANCE at WHITTINGTON VILLAGE HALL SATURDAY, Ist APRIL Dancing to OF MICE AND MEN Dancing from 9-0 11-45 p.m. TICKETS 3 Licensed Bar applied for. ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1967
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 29 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PRISON FOR THE 'DEAF AND DUMB' MAN WHO WASN'T!

... WASN'T! Wpretending to be deaf and dumb, a 43 year-old man begged about 19s. Od. in small change from Lichfield shops on April Fools Day. Yesterday at the City 31Ls3- 'grates' Court. unemployed hotel worker Thomas Meechan admitted four offences of obtaining ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1968
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 245 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

drum had' the

... drum had' the policemen guessing! A 40-GALLON oil drum turned up as a somewhat premature April Fool's day prank for police at Chasetown on Monday The drum was found on a piece, of waste ground adjacent to Church Street primary school. and was reported ...

Published: Friday 04 April 1969
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

DID ANYONE MAKE A `GOWK' OUT OF YOU ... P

... was not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April Fools became a common custom. In Scotland the custom was known as hunting the gowk (the cuckoo), and April fools were April-gowks, for the name cuckoo was there, as it is in most ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1971
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 670 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Tragedy in the trenches but then came

... was not present. friend's sister. and had never seen Edith and Recalled Edith: My A friendship was started. I returned APril Fools Day. husband had a round of It was Mr. Harry Lloyd, who That was 50 years ago, and on Harry fought in many big thousand ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1971
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 361 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Looking forward to outdoor holidays

... to the cost. The soots ore forward facing so After all we don't wont you to be everyone can see where they're going. on April fool. V t Ktnoy ßoc 2otor Co. Lid 'AI Brighton FENNS O BURTON F LTD. ...

Published: Friday 10 November 1972
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 649 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

OUTHILL COLOUR CENTR

... OUTHILL COLOUR CENTR 28, BIRD STREET, LICHFIELD. 3250 DON'T BE AN APRIL FOOL BEAT V.A.T. DULUX CROWN PLUS MAGIOOTE MAGIOOTE SILK VINYL GLOSS TWO GLOSS LATEX 50p litre EMULSION EMULSION 45p litre 92p litre £1.90 2} litre £1.90 21 litre TREND DULUX MATT ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1973
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 67 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Practical joker was not amusing

... indecent Valentine card was sent tc the woman, and then a parcel containing petroleum jelly, was also posted to her as an April Fool joke. Christopher Adams, of Brownsfield Road, Curborough, admitted two charges of sending indecent articles by post. He ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1973
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 170 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... benefit. After being the victim of classic legpulls for many years. I have at last come up with my own. It will start on April Fool's Day and may take some time. But, in 2.11 modesty. I put it in the humdinger class. It has the incentive of being directed ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1979
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 422 | Page: 14 | Tags: none