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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

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

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

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

Mr. Bill Hacklesby,

... of daylight and often later by the light of headlamps cultivating, rolling, and sowing. I've always wanted to pull a good April Fool's Day joke ever since, as a brothersister team, we learned how to rig up a button and a piece of thread to tap a neighbour's ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1979
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 327 | Page: 14 | 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

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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

no fool on April 1

... County Buildings, Martin Street. STAFFORD BTIB 2LH, Date: 23rd March, 1979 But why choose April Fool's day for a wedding? People told me to get him married on April Fool's day it was as good a day as any, so we did. said Mrs. Walker. We originally decided ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1979
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1935 | Page: 17 | Tags: none