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CRICKET

... at Stanton-by-Dale, on August 29th.—Complainant deposed that on the day nam-d the defendant asked her something about blackberrying. He put his arm round her neck and asked her to let him kiss her. She screamed, when he threw her down in the hedge bottom ...

Published: Friday 08 September 1876
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 866 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOMEN'S INSTITUTES Classes and Lectures for the Winter Months. ACTIVITIES IN DERBYSHIRE

... activities as follows : — Armitage gave a lantern lecture and talk on “Bird Life.”” There was a competition for bottled blackberries and full marks were awarded to Mrs. Riley and Mrs. Ratcliff. An American Supper completed a pleasant evening. At an extra ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 1934
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 946 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MAKING MUSHROOM BEDS

... wood to ripen thoroughly. For vines carrying crocs plenty of air is also essential. Cut away the fl‘i'-\nmrinz growths of blackberries at the base immediately the ripe fruit has been cleared. Ground sbou?d be prepared as carly as possible for the autumn ...

Published: Friday 03 October 1913
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 977 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Belper and District

... but they do not furnish a living. Peais and damsons are a complate failure, scarcely any are to be found in the district. Blackberries have been abundant, and also mushrooms as farmers must have known to their ocost. The fields were over run. with ont-of ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1921
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 981 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PRUNING PEACHES

... training as soon as possible of bush, cordon and wall apples ;nul pears, also currants, ra:p--‘ berries, logauberries, and blackberries. The ground bencath trees and bushes that have been pruned may be lightly loosened and um‘u-rw& with a mulching of farmyard ...

Published: Friday 26 December 1913
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1012 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BATEMAN’S ‘“ HISTORY OF ALFRETON.” AN ELUSIVE WORK. By GEORGE PRESTON

... Fritchley, had given up the hunt for one in despair. Pcrsonlfiy, 1 believe, first folio Shakespeares are as plentiful as blackberries in September, by comparison with this little work of Bateman's. But the fact is established that the history was published ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1921
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1169 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ALFRETON

... with two other boys, named William l’gool% and Walter Woolley, in a disused hrickf'ard. The boy Chadbourne started picking blackberries, when he slipped and fell down a steep bank, into a pool of stagnant water 15 feet deep. The pool is on land, the property ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1919
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POLICE INTELLIGENGCE

... underwood in a plantstion owned by the Batterley Company. at Codnor Park. on the Ist inst. Defanszmt said be was gathering blackberries when the watcher came up ; he had done no injury. RoBBERY AT CoDNOR. — Samuel Langton was charged with having stolen a ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1884
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1167 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Coroxers’ Fres,

... sold to a farmer. The prisoner had been before convicted, and the chairman remarked that sheep-stealing was g#mm common as blackberries in Derbyshire. The calen were full of them. The pri.oner‘h'(:lld be sentenced to two years' imprisonment, wif ve years' ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1878
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1021 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

‘{. : GOsSSIP flM,

... prune. Unfasten the trees from trellis or wall and wash the wood with an insecticide, retying the trees again in }xxn'tion, Blackberry suckers with plenty of fibrous roots are the best to plant. As they produce long growths it is best to train them on trellises ...

Published: Friday 20 November 1914
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1252 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AT OSSP A &

... good season to plant fresh stock, suckers with plenty of roots being available, or suitable plants can be purchased. Plant blackberry suckers one foot apart in rows four or five feet asunder; oo«i, rich soil is necessary for them: train tfio long stems to ...

Published: Friday 14 November 1913
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1168 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

... very poor soil in the case of apples, pears, peaches, and nectarines, but for gooseberries, currants, raspberries, and blackberries a rich soil is best. Lift all tubers as soon as possible now, and preserve them through the winter by clamping on a piece ...

Published: Friday 31 October 1913
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1286 | Page: 2 | Tags: none