... never known the soot covered streets of the big cities but they still sent their parents letters in pencil which told of blackberrying, ponies and traps and a strange people who baked their own bread and talked in a strange tongue. Stories of dissent may ...

... been to the pictures again and I am going again on Saturday IF I am a Good Girl.” Then as an afterthought: “I have been blackberrying.” Ten-year-old Derek Carter of Whitehall Junior School harked back to his evacuee voyage on the Queen of the Channel - ...

... some memorable event. Veronica Horsley, church warden and verger, worked four kneelers with colourful designs of hops and blackberries and primroses and violets. She told me she had never done anything like this before but she joined the group which was ...

... along this footpath, cross a stile and maintain direction across the fields towards Drudgean Farm. Look out for the wild blackberries and damsons. At School Lane, turn left and immediately right into Southfleet Road to return to Bean Post Office where the ...

... about Kent and it’s inhabi- chicken breasts in mushroom sauce with mixed vegetables and baby new potatoes was followed by blackberry and apple crumble with cream and coffee. Afterwards raised more than £lOO from its sponsored run at Brands Hatch in July ...

... and wells working. The people make their own bread.” He was also a born survivor. When his pocket money ran out he went blackberrying and sold %efl for twopence a pound, which paid for the cks. Another 14-year-old was “a bit of a romancer” but at least his ...