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!Blackberries

... utumn has always been that it brings the blackberry season. There are, I think, few outings comparable to an afternoon picking blackberries. It ts true, of that you get scratches, but who would be a real blackberry picker without the ecars of the trade And ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1923
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BLACKBERRIES

... Still, hope remained, for no greengrocer could say “Oh, dear, no,” when it came to blackberry season. Bramble jelly for Junior. , . Blackberries bottled for blackberry-and-apple pies and puddings. They would see us through the winter when we went agathering ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1945
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 284 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Blackberries

... Blackberries —but No One to Pick Them! farmers, who left hedges uncut so that blackberry briars growing in the hedgerows would not be damaged, are complaining that hundredweights of blackberries have been allowed to to waste because there has been no ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1942
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 138 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Blackberry Time

... Blackberry Time. THE blackberry harvest promises to be a record this year, and everywhere we see the red fruits turning to black blobs of imprisoned sunshine along the spray. There is an indescribable charm about blackberry gathering. Perhaps it is the ...

Published: Thursday 02 September 1926
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 154 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BLACKBERRY PICKING

... BLACKBERRY PICKING A Suggestion for School Authorities. Task Children Would Blackberries are plentiful. Other fruit is scarce. 2! is scarce, and unless some system be organised a great proportion of the blackberry crop will go to ruin. In these circumstances ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1918
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 580 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IN THE GARDEN BLACKBERRIES

... IN THE GARDEN BLACKBERRIES RUBUS, Didsbury. wants to cultivatel blackberries, and puts several questions. Here they are (1) Which is the best variety to grow? (2) Is it necessary to have more than one variety, or would an isolated plant be fertile ...

Published: Tuesday 09 December 1947
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 614 | Page: 4 | 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

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

• 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