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PLAY WASHED OUT IN BRITISH ‘OPEN’ By DERRICK COLLIER

... PLAY WASHED OUT IN BRITISH ‘OPEN’ By DERRICK COLLIER PLAY was washed out for the day by torrential rain in the British Open goli championship, on the Royal Blrkdale course at Southport, to-day. There may After two emergency meet- but with the continuation ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1961
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 511 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE COLLIER BRIG

... of the colliers , also , that the cook was frequently more closely in touch with the skipper than was the mate . It was another characteristic of the collier service that a number of skippers passed from command to ownership . Life on a collier brig provided ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1926
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 769 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE COLLIER

... THE COLLIER. Reader, see you not • number of substantially built cottages a little beyond yonder common. The light of • blazing fire is visible from a window in each, and the inhabitants seem to be the only population of the dis. trict around, for the ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 1855
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 686 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COLLIERS AND THEIR ABLUTIONS

... who had boasted that he had not been washed from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot for 30 years. (Laughter.)—Mr Samuel Haworth expressed the opinion that colliers would not use the baths. They did not wash themselves from head to foot more than ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1875
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Vast':

... farther “Cowan. Bank of Suethave Offers up to the let Septentber next FARM IN LANARI — SE ON yee FAKM COWPORD, the Por such Number of Years as may extending (0 4 Acres of Arshte Land. Sig Tee tim or thereby of i — i Mr Jemer who nor tobe wel stented, wis ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1903
Newspaper: Hamilton Advertiser
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE NEWCASTLE COLLIER

... THE NEWCASTLE COLLIER. Some years ago it was calculated that for every 100,000 tons of coal sent btnk in England one collier’s life was lost. the accident average bad been struck daring the last two years, it would, thfok, have been cod siderably higher ...

WARNING TO COLLIERS

... grudged the supper, and have hinted that a goodly number ought not to be there, but after all we we not swam of the special circumstances attending each case, and it is enough to see that a vast number of human creatures enjoy themselveeat this particular ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: Lanarkshire Upper Ward Examiner
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1438 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

.., VAST MOI

... VAST MEN Police departments sometimes receive letters and descriptions of a peculiar nature, but ths following lies over anything in the line of “com plaint” we remember to bave ever seen. It hae served ite purpose, hence the chief permits us ‘¢ publish ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1875
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2443 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE

... HE COLLIERS’ STRIKE DECISION OF EMPLOYERS. _ STOPPAGE OF WORKS. The great strike of colliers which commenced on Saturday became yesterday pretty general in all districts where the has not been conceded, except in North Staffordshire and Worcestershire ...

Published: Tuesday 18 March 1890
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2221 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

''' .. .4llllllwwwww• - • . 6 FATaL QUARRF.I. AMONG COLLIER:4.—JkhoIIt Midnight oil Saturday a number of ..

... ''' .. .4llllllwwwww• - • . 6 FATaL QUARRF.I. AMONG COLLIER:4.—JkhoIIt Midnight oil Saturday a number of colliers were returning to their homes at Stanley, after visiting U'akefield,andaftergettingintoxicatedeommenced quarrelling and fighting. Several ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1883
Newspaper: Glasgow Weekly Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3550 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

in the vastness of space

... in the vastness of space A cosmonaut has to spend a lot of time dusting and wiping. A damp cloth is on hand at all times. After all, in what used to be called weightlessness but is now known as “microgravity”, there are no horizontal surfaces: everything ...

Published: Monday 10 March 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 625 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

The Houses of the Colliers

... of the Colliers 60 Years Ago. The colliers prior to 1799, in some parts of Scotland, were no better than slaves, and were the property of the landlord on whose estate they were born, and when the estate was sold, or the coal let, the colliers were transferred ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1859
Newspaper: Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald
County: Ayrshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2749 | Page: 2 | Tags: none