Refine Search

Countries

Regions

North West, England

Place

Runcorn, Cheshire, England

Access Type

14
538

Type

37
3

Public Tags

No tags available

MAN

... say, they went about at night to gentlemen's houses singing, as was the immemorial wont of Cheshire and other peasantry at Hallowe'en. It may be that these troubadours, or pilgrims, or what not, were not moved, in this matter by a purely pious purpose, or ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1873
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

4arictits

... daure lowse yere tongue upon my country like thaat, I'll gie ye a cloot on the lug that'll mak' it tingle fra this till Hallowe'en ! The thunderstruck Englishman stammered out, Why, my good man, I thought you were a Turk! And sae lam a Turk the noo ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1880
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6376 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POLITICAL SITUATION:,

... drowned.—A Lloyd's' telegram carried the tidings of his death. For more than 40 years from ealcome says that the iron ship, Halloween, from he has lived and laboured for our fatherland. Our Queen Foochowte,o, with tea, went ashore on the Sewer Mill has told ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1887
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6152 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BIG NUGGETS OF GOLD

... rush. Part 18 of The Life and Times of Queen Victoria has for frontispiece a full page engraving of the Queen keeping halloween at Balmoral. There are other fine engravings; and the period covered 4 from 1888 to 1870. The House of Surprises Is the ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1887
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1475 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AMUSING BREACH OF PROMISE CASE

... On the first Sunday of April last year he took her hand in an affectionate way, and promised to marry her. (Laughter). At Hallowe'en last year the defender renewed his promise of marriage, and on the strength of the promise she began to prepare for the ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1888
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

iSeib Pianoforte

... she was under no suell disadvantage on Wednesday night, and delighted heradmirers, in the old style, by her rendering of 'Halloween, and Widmung. She was most effective, however, in A lark's flight,: which she sang ' with much power and sweetness ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1890
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1295 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MR. PEARSON'S CONCERT

... Song The far& Miss Loung, , Solo Violoncello Recitative Pone Danizetti Aria Alma saave e cars. k • MR. SWITZ. J a. Halloween I b. Wic:tnung Lassen Schumann ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1890
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GUARDIAN SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 1896 HORNIU I BBBT lb cop to UU Ut ’ctad only from Indlt China UM 41

... title by M All play cyclists of woman of majority Crewland the Public Light Act and it be streets in night Burns usual on Hallowe’en ladies gentlemen sitting to dinner tbe Restaurant The found to Scotland Mra resident of Yarmouth of Messrs Lac Co's Bank ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1896
Newspaper: Runcorn Guardian
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4118 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GUARDIAN SATURDAY 3 1900 SALES last Man-' 1 In (Im ou:lirSi l ! iatk didrirti ’i J ivtnl tr animal

... 120 year of Columb Minor Mr Caras i in ninety-fifth office for It is remarkab's the clerk bald tbe office whole of present Halloween i of is isstitution with of i 1 fty by th custom enshrined Burn’ observers of did in day in other beings nil baneful night ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1900
Newspaper: Runcorn Guardian
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4793 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WOMEN'S CHAI

... WOMEN'S CHAI. Hallowe'en, which falls on the last day of October,and is more particularly an old Scottish festival, used to be regularly observed at Balmoral Z,lastle, with bonfires and torchlight processions. The sentiments and customs are enshrined ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1901
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1162 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WOMEN'S CHAT

... high-spirited girl, with a desire to see and know the world, and is much more a public woman than is the President's wife. Old Hallowe'en Customs.—ln the days of the good old customs there were many quaint observances associated with the 31st October, or All ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1905
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1459 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

(Copyright.) THE MASTERPIECE.*

... Keith need not send any more verse. And people asked what editor he meant to honour! The blighting note reached him on Hallowe'en. For auld lang sync he meant to treat himself that evening ; there was to be a little dinner, regardless cf extra pence ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1906
Newspaper: Runcorn Examiner
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4555 | Page: 2 | Tags: none