July 19

Posted by sydney on Jul 30th, 2008
  • 2008: July 30 – <?php OTDList(); ?>
    Apologies for the missed post yesterday; having a hectic time at the moment.
  • 1792: July 30, 1792 – Mr Churton left us, & went to Waverley.
  • 1791: July 30, 1791 – Made black curran-jelly.  Finished cutting the tall hedges.  Gathered some lavender.
  • 1789: July 30, 1789 – John Hale brings home a waggon-load of woollen-rags, which are to be strewed on this hop-grounds in the spring, & dug in as manure.  These rags weighed at ton weight & cost brought home near six pounds.  They came from Gosport.
  • 1788: July 30, 1788 – Some workmen, reapers, are made sick by the heat.  Much wheat bound. Some housed by John Carpenter.
  • 1787: July 30, 1787 – Wheat-harvest will be backward.  Mr White’s tank at Newton runds over; but Captain Dumaresque’s, which is much larger, is not full.
  • 1786: July 30, 1786 – Some hop-gardens injured by the wind of yesterday. Arichokes so dried-up that they do not head well.
  • 1785: July 30, 1785 – Boys bring the 8th & 9th wasps nest.  Pyramidal campanula blows.
  • 1783: July 30, 1783 – Few hazel-nuts.  Men house field-pease.  Ponds are dry.  Grass-walks burn.  Ripening weather.
  • 1781: July 30, 1781 – The ants, male, female, & workers, come forth from under my stairs by thousands.
  • 1780: July 30, 1780 – Young snipes were seen at the Bishop of Winchester’s table at Farnham-castle on this day: they are bred on all the moory-heaths of this neighbourhood.
  • 1777: July 30, 1777 – Pond-heads are blown-up: & roads torn by the torrents.  Great flood at Gracious street.  Several mills are damaged.  Hay drowned.  Finished the walls of my new parlor.
  • 1776: July 30, 1776 – Peacocks begin to moult & cast their splendid train. Total eclipse of the moon.
  • 1775: July 30, 1775 – By this evenings post I am informed, by a Gent. who is just come from thence that the hops all round Canterbury have failed:  there are many hundred acres not worth picking.
  • 1772: July 30, 1772 – Vast aurora borealis.
  • 1771: July 30, 1771 – Sun chilly.  Cold white dew.  Rain.
  • 1770: July 30, 1770 – Cut my little mead.  Vines in bloom.  Showers about.

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