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15 IN ONE HOUSE. POSSESSION APPLICATION AT DARWEN

... glalliwell intimated the possibility of an appeal against the decision. WOMAN'S PLUCK. i A woman at Hale while gathering blackberries fell down a steep bank and broke her collar-bone. She afterwards walked two miles to Aldershot to obtain surgical assistance ...

Published: Friday 05 September 1924
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1399 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

NELSON POLICE PENSIONER'S TRAGIC DEATH. o TRAGEDY OF FAILING SIGHT

... jump similar to a rof. There are plenty of shrubs and bramble growing on tfie sides of the ditch, the chief of which are the blackberry, holly and hawthorn. The holly is an evergreen and has thick prickly leaves because of this it makes an ideal hedge. The ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1924
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1204 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

HETTY'S CHOICE

... so happy, for she was just off to the woods to meet her friends, and they were going to have a long ramble in search of blackberries. She turned down the shady lane, and as she passed by Dame Appleby’s cottage, she thought it would be kind to ask the poor ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1924
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 615 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

RIDDLES

... (air), * Which is the coldest English river? The Isis. (ice-is). When a nigger dies, what do all the other niggers do? Go black-berrying, of course. From ALICE SUMMERSCALES. RAIN. The rain is raining all around, it falls on field and tree; 1t rains on the ...

Published: Friday 10 October 1924
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MY SEPTEMBER VISIT TO THE FARM

... car, right through the Cranwell camps and aerodromes. Next morning T went blackberrying, and I got a big can full, The bushes were low, and they were full of huge blackberries. On Tuesday it was the fox hounds, and I saw the big dogs go after the fox ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1924
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

RIDDLES

... I suppose, forty eyes but never a nose? A thimble. As green as grass, as red as fire, as biack as coal : what is it?—A blackberry, How many sides are there to a tree?— Two : inside and out. Why does the sun rise in the cast?-- Because the (y)east make ...

Published: Friday 31 October 1924
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

It’s Time You Mad your Plum Puddings, Mince Meat, and Iced Cakes for Xmas. You can get all the materials

... Cochineal. Ground Almonds. Icing Sugar, Cake Decorations. Shredded Suet. Bottled Fruits for Tarts—Gooseberries, Damsons, Blackberries and Black Currants. All their cooking fruits are cleaned by electrical machinery, and the quality of all their goods is ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1924
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

BUMPING A MAYOR

... called) are resplendent in every shade of yellow and orange and crimson; while mingling with them arve the tints of the blackberry bushes, browns, deep crimsons, and shades of purple and black: while some of the leaves were curiously marked with zig-zag ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1925
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1870 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COLNE MAN’'S RECORD

... bordered by syca mores, ash trees, hazels and alders, and here we often went a-gypsying, gathering from the hedgerows the wild blackberries, the fruit “to every truant schoolboy known.” One almost regrets that the inevitable march of time, and so-called progress ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1925
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2123 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MANY FAILURES

... prove successful? Of course there isn’t, for the simple reason that centre-forwards of the right type are as scarce as blackberries in March. ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1925
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TABL TALK

... lady, passing with her lord and master, was heard to remark to the latter: “ 1 dooan’t like look o' that mon theer.”’ ‘“ Blackberrying.’ The promise of fine crops of hlackberries in and around the Ribble and Hodder val leys is being fulfilled. Children ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1925
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1186 | Page: 6 | Tags: none