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CHAT MOSS

... first crusade and was killed in a fight 9 with a dragon at Rhodes. The former presence of deer Iwas evidenced by the name of Hiudaford.' Deer horns had been found in the moss at a great depth. Chat Moss has 3 been described as a peat bog ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1541 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... kitten bring the old cat a mouse ? There's a thought for you. Wttrk it out for yourselves, An interesting elopement t )ok place in a town Nvithin easy walking distance of Preston, one night during the week. A well to do tradesmnan had a ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1885
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3520 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... loteotions. a.40 Not a, long ago there was, in Preston, a teetotal public house keeper with a teetotal family about him T're other day we heard ofea kindred case, some dietant'e ntirth of the town-a large hotel kept by ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1887
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2692 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... quarters, and by persons never suspected of having any regard forlucoli a thing. A farmer, living in a dis. trict on one side of Preston, bad occasion, a few days since, to go into a small field, containing some grain stacks, near his place, ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1890
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3154 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... is conoerned. The other day, a Preston tradesman re- ceived, from the G. P. O., a letter, bearing the gone, &a., consolation, which he had sent to a person in London on the 18th December, 1886. A delay of nearly ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1887
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2663 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... is. oertilily,.a serious matter. Later on he des'ribed the Sohool Board efficer as a sack of saw- dust, with a boiled turnip for a head. 'Qiassical that, very. In a rural district not far from town, the other night, some Rethihbit-s had ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1885
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2675 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... Ul sent them; but there is a ati ong suspicion afloat, and ns it ines in a double or alternative direoiion. It is said 6! that either a brother chip t locd1 lawyer) or a a( certain person who deals in second hand goods had ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1890
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2894 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... become a little mere courteous, and n 7 cease, in certain quarters, introducing old hose, when a e the light has faded gently away, n A very pretty is going on in certain circles, in Is Preston, society annent the High Church, proclivites of I a . ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1885
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2353 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... which, howevr a eatl seourtimb, ept to ex. la Douglas. The ken gete .nddnt atl. minutes, ti amine his prize in th sbut after' a-, few behd fist U( walked oat with -it in his cleched fist. Claime. t as a is good, particularly for such a terrible' anlago4i ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1885
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3233 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... excelklctir 'ervaniet, anti haildons a decidedly hsrtt day's mark. ' it itt cabfor the Uritisabwtnrkoitnn i1 Writs me down tie Ace.'' A few'(data Sbz 'lt, ait I'isleman, driving two or three donkeys clong a raead, a fiw utilee icortit of Freston, wits ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1887
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3547 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... presidentai extinguishment to the inherent perfection of the club. As a rule, a club, like a ship, does not go on its course very long, in anything like Ia smooth, successful way, without a head man; but this particular club may be an exception. Time will ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1890
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2645 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... lie lies vi been driven up a tree by old friends. If this a . be true, it amounts to a rather curious revelation-it e] n throws a, little light upon portions of the old Ribble 1 ea policy, and shows how Charmingly a defender of it can ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1890
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4001 | Page: 5 | Tags: News