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THE BLACKBERRY HARVEST

... THE BLACKBERRY HARVEST. A wonderful harvest of blackberries is in store for the city customers. Reports from all centres of production agree that brambles are more abundant than ever this ?eason. In Kent the bushes about Canterbury and Maidstone are smothered ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1907
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

BLACKBERRY GATHERING

... we talked blackberries, we dreamt blackberries! Each day our outfit was the same, a hooked stick, a big basket, and an easy conscience. On the outward journey the basket was filled with a generous lunch; homeward, it bulged with blackberries. Good digestion ...

Published: Tuesday 03 October 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2139 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BLACKBERRY BOY

... BLACKBERRY BOY After living for a week on blackberries 13-year-old Camber ley schoolboy, who disappeared a week ago, has been found on' Old Dean Common, Camberley, weak and exhausted. He told his father he had been ashamed to come home because he had ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

APPLES AND BLACKBERRIES

... crop. The blackberry harvest will be the best for number of years. The bushes are laden with the fruit, which will now very soon begin to ripen, and the country folk will reau rich reward for their labours in gathering the bright blackberries, which hang ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MUSHROOMS AND BLACKBERRIES

... MUSHROOMS AND BLACKBERRIES. A SEPTEMBER OCCUPATION IN CUMBERLAND. Employment is at the present time afforded to hundreds of persons in Cumberland and Westmorland in tho gathering of brambles and mushrooms, there being abnormal crops of both. Mushroorrrrag ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1899
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BLACKBERRY CROP

... THE BLACKBERRY CROP. The blackberry crop in Kent this season an exceptionally large one, and the fruit, owing to the hot sun and high temperature, is of very fine quality. few instances blackberries are preserved in bottles or made into jam, but the bulk ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1890
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BLACKBERRY HARVEST

... best shown in blackberry season. Communism has not yet made such strides that one can safely plead a love for nature as an excuse for invading tho 6trawborry-bed of the stranger. The blackberry is not a peach (or would not be blackberry); but it not on ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1884
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1009 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

• BLACKBERRY AND APPLE CHARLOTTE

... • BLACKBERRY AND APPLE CHARLOTTE I Ih. apples; slices of stale bread; lb blackberries; 4 ozs. sugar. Grease a medium-sized cake tin and cut one or two rounds of stale bread to fit the bottom. Cut fingers of bread to stand up round the sides. Press firmly ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1944
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 117 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BLACKBERRY GATHERER AND THE KEEPER

... work he went to see if he could get some blackberries to sell so as to get food for his children. He had picked about three 3 of blackberries in Bishop's Wood, the property of Ecclesiastical Commini3sionors, when he saw the defendant and three other men. ...

Published: Monday 04 September 1893
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Oreat Blackberry Crop

... The Oreat Blackberry Crop. Never before, in the writer's experience at any rate, has there been such energy displayed I among the country folks in gathering the blackberry crop. Out in Cheshire some people ate spending day after day among the tangled ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1906
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 154 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Family Gunned as They Blackberried

... Family Gunned as They Blackberried MORE sidelights from today’s war news that show how calmly Britain is taking the blitzkrieg : A FAMILY were machine-‘-V. gunned by Nazi planes while blackberring the Sussex Downs. ‘VVe heard the rush of planes,” said ...

Published: Monday 19 August 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 309 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BLACKBERRY CHURCH SERVICES

... BLACKBERRY CHURCH SERVICES. Blackberry services have been held the two town churches of Woking. At one church the children's offering of the fruit, picked by themselves from bushes and hedgerows, amounted to 901b., and at the other 701b. The blackberries ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1901
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 8 | Tags: none