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HENLEY DISTRICT

... plum harvest is everywhere failure. The recent rains, however, have greatly increased the vegetable harvest prospects. Blackberries, which were in great demand last year for manufacturing into jam for our troops, give promise average yield, provided ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MAIDENHEAD

... evacuated children arrive the first air RAID WARNING APPOINTMENT OF WAR TIME OFFICIALS CHILD'S DEATH AFTER EATING UNRIPE BLACKBERRIES Notice to Advertisers. Maidenhead and district. Advertisements for insertion in the fereury can be handed to JU. H. Penn ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

SEPTEMBER

... And left a golden stain. Hedge-rows are fair (Fringing old lanes—round green and cotted leas) With hip and haw, the blackberry and sloe. Lovely the moon, with bright flowers everywhere. Sweet the new song of redbreast warbling low. ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1838
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BROADMOOR

... BROADMOOR. Th© Broadmoor school children, tinder the head mistress, >1 rs. Hanson, have gathered 102 lb. of blackberries for jammaking. Pte. T,. J. Watson, Regiment, eldest son Mr. and Mrs. Watson. of Upper Broadmoor, has been wounded for the second time ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOW TO INCREASE THE FOOD SUPPLY

... Savoys, Kales, Cabbege, Cauliflower, late Celery, and Leeks. To bottle all Fruit of Plum, Damson, and Bush Fruit, including Blackberries. Bottle Rhubarb; store Apples in a cool place, not too dry but not damp, else they will shrivel. Do these things now to ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1914
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NEWBURY, SATURDAY, April 20

... Mr. E. Smith's Stick-in-the-Mud, Mr. Austin's Selim, Mr. J. Moggendge's Forester, Mr. E. Bradley's Rocket, Mr. Townsend's Blackberry, Mr. Bayly's Taffy, Mr. Harrison's Moonraker, The stakes were ten sovereigns each, the winner to pay towards the expencesof ...

Published: Monday 22 April 1833
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEWBURY COUNTY POLICE COURT

... in the parish of Speen. Mary Drewatt deposed that on the day in question she was in the gravel pit at Ownham, picking blackberries, when the defendant came up and committed the assault complained of. Defendant attempted throw her down, when she shouted ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1878
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A PIG TRANSACTION

... £5, the property of Charles Goddard, at Wokingham, on Angnst 3tth. Prosecutor left the bicycle in a field while he went blackberrying. The boys pleaded guilty, and it was stated that they were sent to Wokingham for a stay by the Fresh Air Fund. They were ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Serious Charge

... looking girl, engaged as a domestic servant, but temporarily on a holiday with her grandmother in Uffington, was out picking blackberries with two younger girls. Edith Wheeler and Maria Curtis. They were by the side of the canal leading towards Oxleaze Farm ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TILEHURST ROADS

... on a huge Reading-made signboard, because there are no oak trees, and Westfield-road had exquisitely picturesque sides blackberry, chiefly, and other scrub, and I often have noticed the villagers gathering the fruit. Now these are all being cleared off ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1914
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SAD DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN AT READING

... seemed to be in a hurry to get over in front of the train. There were no blackberries the spot, only underwood. In reply to Mr. Sadler, the witness said there might be some blackberry bushes on the spot, but the fruit would not ba ripe. deceased was not ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BASINGSTOKE CYCLIST KILLED Collided With Motor-Cycle A verdict of Accidental death was returned at the inquest ..

... a collision between his pedal-cycle and a motor-cycle. Richards had left home with a friend on Sunday afternoon to go blackberrying, and while cycling in Church Lane, Tadley, a collision occurred with a motor-cyclist named Wilfred George Barnes, a plumber ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1939
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 12 | Tags: none