Refine Search

Newspaper

Birmingham Weekly Mercury

Countries

Counties

Warwickshire, England

Access Type

82

Type

1

Public Tags

No tags available
More details

Birmingham Weekly Mercury

SUNDAY MERCURY May VISION AND SOUND BLOOMFIELD and wife fly to Holland this week their first holiday in four years

... ft—NEWS REVIEW AND Wv WEATHER 7 7g— BOWAN AND MARTIN’S LAUGH-IN : : 81 - documentary Incas SHERLOCK ' HOLMES : CITIZEN A With Conan 'Doyle AND CRICKET' yT- SCORES - - 1ft f— IOLANTHE by Sullivan ‘gill -Jttto ' WALES: BAG' - AllThe Doctors 40: - Film 4 -'r fr't'tf'- ...

Published: Sunday 24 May 1970
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1313 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Page Seventeen Summer County WIN A MINI Supplement SUNDAY MERCURY April 19 1964 JpOR nearly a century Mrs ..

... large domestic staff the of leisure High praise for Mrs Beeton came from well-known figures of her day including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who in his great study of married life entitled A Duet with Occasional Chorus’’ makes heroine say: Mrs Beeton must have ...

Published: Sunday 19 April 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1447 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

MEUCrUY Cfjrustmas fTHE critic faced with of selecting a list of book suitable to give to friends relations at ..

... Month Illustrated 21s Adventure HEAVEN HAS CLAWS Exploration of tlie wild coral islands off coast of Zanzi-ar by ADRIAN CONAN DOYLE Illustrated 16s A PATTERN OF ISLANDS best-selling “ masterpiece SIR ARTHUR GRIMBLE “ Daily Mail Standard Book of the Month ...

Published: Sunday 30 November 1952
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1342 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

i SUNDAY MERCURY -13 1990 51 r Batty stories o£ oddball cricket IT was the oddest mate I Trent Bridge

... veterans were getting a bit long in the tooth Alas they failed to bowl the maidens over In the same year at Lord’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle scored four A A Milne topped him with five and P G Wodehouse made BOOKS THINKING OF BUYING NEW WINDOWS & DOORS ? THEN THEN ...

Published: Sunday 13 May 1990
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1549 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

SUNDAY MERCURY JUNE S' '1988 Talkabout SURPRISE FRIENDSHIPS LUCKY ESCAPES AND THE GOLDEN DAYS OF MOTORING ..

... for sale It was built in 1382 by Sir Simon Burley character in that most splendid of books “The White Company” of Arthur Conan Doyle Mary Tudor who lost Calais to the French said they would find “Calais” engraved on her heart Engraved on my heart more correctly ...

Published: Sunday 05 June 1988
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1513 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

mercury SUNDAY MERCURY 19 1966 Page JOURNEY INTO SUMMER where thte unexpected never fails to turn up The Indian ..

... The Indian rope trick and a cherub up a tree piFTY years the young men of Britain were dying in their thousands on Somme Conan Doyle wrote of them: They gave their dreams of what might be For the sake of things that are” Their memorial a safe for the s ...

Published: Sunday 19 June 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1462 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

SUNDAY MERCURY SEPTEMBER 21 ACROSS THE ENTERTAINMENT- 3 05-PLAYBOARD 9M-WAKE UP SUNDAY with songs and from Dana ..

... music The Ice Break IS) Dream 70 Does He Take Sugar? Opera 155 listeners Interval 30 Ice 738 Break 2 Robert June : Conan Doyle Sherlock Knox-Mawer 80 Talk Doyle's Remember (S) Three-choir con- famUiar cert from St Albans inter- Ice Break national ...

Published: Sunday 21 September 1980
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1272 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

30 SUNDAY MERCURY MARCH 19 1995 SEVEN DAYS Films Evening WING AND A PRAYER (Channel 4 210pm) Post-Pearl Harbour ..

... their favourite comic is being set up (1946) (B&W) SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON (Channel 4 1pm) Modernised re-hash of the Conan Doyle sleuth character Basil Rath-bone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson fight Nazi spies (1943) (B&W) GREAT EXPECTATIONS (BBC2 ...

Published: Sunday 19 March 1995
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1449 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

SUNDAY MERCURY JULY 4 1999 23 Talk ABOUT On this day in HISTORY Write to: The Editor Sunday Mercury 28

... (1926) London: Rudyard Kipling is awarded a gold medal by the Royal Society of Literature (1930) British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - author of the Sherlock Holmes books - dies July 8 (1908) UK: Scotsman George Davidson invents a gyropter allying machine ...

Published: Sunday 04 July 1999
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1443 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

mercury' 3ofi989 THE SMOOTH TASTE OF A HOME-BREWED PINT Edited by NICK WALL Bird’s Eye View Dickens of a good

... dereliction as I have known when “grey rainstorms raced across from Cader Idris” My own favourite novel “The White Company” by Conan Doyle draws you at once into the drama and comedy of the monks crowding in at the abbot’s summons “The great bell of Beaulieu ...

Published: Sunday 30 April 1989
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1525 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SUNDAY MERCURY MAY 6 1990 53 'HjHii: Being black on the beat Black In Blue” (BBCl 8pm) More than 14

... Bombay’s criminal underworld (1990) “Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse” (BBCl 1050am) An animated film version of the Conan Doyle classic features the voices of Peter OToole Helen Morse and Ron Haddrick (1983) “Tawny Pipet” (Channel 4 2pm) Ealing comedy ...

Published: Sunday 06 May 1990
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1407 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

MERCURY Twelve SUNDAY MERCURY February 23 VISION AND SOUND VTEET a very ancient armour - plated Dr Watson from nigh

... centuries been adapted from the works Dutch author Robert Gulik brought to life the relentless character of Judge Dee did Sir Conan Doyle the spy-glass detective the new series the 6ft actor who leapt to recognition on stage and small beginnings as an amateur ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1969
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1401 | Page: 12 | Tags: none