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AWAY FROM THESE WARS...: Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between

... Memory nods while kings ride by in pomp and thrills, with an interest that imprints and colours every detail, to pluck a few blackberries in the lane. The great moments of my uneventful life are listed (in the conventional manner) but not illustrated. The first ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1463 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

BIGGER and BETTER VEGETABLES--and FRUITS

... nature cannot be hurried, and it is only the result of years of study that next summer, for the first time, huge thoraless blackberries with fruit r-inch in diameter will be gathered on a commercial scale in this country. It is, in fact, a cross between a ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1971 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

AWAY FROM IT ALL: A Londoner's Holiday-time Impression of Life Away from the War and from the Flying Bomb

... primroses, the purple foxgloves, the ripening pears and apples, the pink of the roses and the white flowers of the late-blooming blackberry bushes. There, is not a sound except for a small stream, a cock crowing, and the buzz of a bee which has just cut out. Now ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1881 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

HOW THE MEN ARE COMING OUT: The First of a Series of Three Articles Dealing with the Greatest Problem of the ..

... twenty-two kills to his credit, seen with his batman as he surrenders the historic wastes of this once-busy aerodrome to blackberry-pickers and three Waafs who are off for a game of tennis A DEMOBILISATION PROBLEM How to get back to peacetime employment ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1525 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

SHORTER REVIEWS: A Selection from the Publishers' Lists

... Ltd. 6s.) is the latest treatise by Andre Simon, the wine expert. He tells us how to make many old favourites, such as blackberry wine and cowslip wine, and introduces us to the mysteries of Hippocras, Heart 's- Ease, Brunswick Mum, Negus, Mead and Metheglin ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 725 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 29 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1541 | Page: 38 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Saturday 05 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 548 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

IT IS NUTTING TIME: The Hazel--the Only Wild Tree Producing an Edible Nut: Nut-Picking and Keeping up With the ..

... seems to me-- in this district, at any rate some thing confined to nuts. This year has been a most magnificent year for blackberries: it is many years since I have seen such a profusion of magnificent fruit. A few years ago there would have been tough ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1948 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

FLOWER NAMES IN HAMPSHIRE

... Sewing Yarrow. Hoppity Speedwell. Jacob's Ladder Solomon's Seal Jews' Whips Broom. (Why Kiss Me Primrose. Ladies' Garters Blackberry. Lavender Snips Yellow Toadflax. Lords and Ladies Arum. (The Ladies have pale-coloured clubs: the Lords dark ones.) Lousy ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1265 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

AUTUMN

... AUTUMN The period is the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The boy and the girl are blackberrying, watched by their dog. In the background horsemen are hunting a stag. Round the border of the painting are various seasonal fruits, berries, plants and leaves ...

Published: Friday 10 November 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 172 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

OBITUARY FOR JOHNNIE JOBLESS

... rooms, blackberries from door to door. Everything that grew was grist to his mill: and he knew where everything grew. Again, it sounds simple: but it meant much walking and much hard work. For example, he would pick 20 pounds and more of blackberries in a ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1215 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HEEL OF ITALY

... heights of the peninsula you find yourself first passing between hedgerows that are heavy with cow parsley and a-tangle with blackberry bushes, then entering a forest that is as deep and green and cool as anything the Home Counties have to offer. This marvellous ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1764 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs