... A MATTER OF CUSTOM! Brian Wood (36) Farmer, of Blackberry Hall Farm, Heysham, pleaded not guilty to using a motor lorry with inefficient brakes, and guilty to using a lorry with inefficient steering. After hearing the verdict of a £7 fine and his licence ...

... Saturday halfpenny was about the only money children could be sure of unless they sold sand, or gathered bilberries and blackberries. But what matter money when you went out to play? Numbers of games could be played with stones. The moor and the woods ...

... flock of Lapwings was feeding on the moor. Many Cabbage White and Tortoiseshell butterflies were feeding on the Thistles and Blackberry flowers. In the woodland the Whitebeam and the Rowan or Mountain Ash were in fruit, their berries providing food for the ...

... this time of the year one is ‘uttuc!cd to the wild fruits of the countryside and there is a good supply {of bilberries, blackberries, rowanberries. and the fruits of the white ‘beam and wild crab apple. Scores of ‘birds were seen feeding on these and ‘their ...

... “Know your car” to palate-tickling wine-making. In the latter there were samples of the old-fashioned home-made wines like blackberry and red clovge =ibing shoulders with some obviously ‘new examples of the distillers’ art‘Meadow Sweet '64 and Clementine ...

... currants being added. In bilberry time the moor edge swarmed with pickers. Bilberries could be sold at 4d. a pint, whereas blackberries only fetched half the price. Turf or peat had ceased to be used in my time. but heather was collected for fire-lighting ...

... (medium). Mrs.! Maurice Aitchison. The orchestra,! E. Stevenson won the Crowther Cup: led by David Lewis and conducted ! with blackberry wine (dry), Mr. D.!by Dr. Ben Horsfall, played the! Whittaker the Shoesmith Cup with Overture to Prince Igor by Borodin' ...