London Central Secondary School - Golden Glimpses Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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there with her mother, the Duchess of York, and seemed to be having a lovely time, despite the fact that she was kept busy trying to keep her hat on. It happened to be a windy day instead of the usual rainy days which the English people never seem to mind in the least. The Prince of Wales was there too, and chatted with the guests as he made his way among them. The King and Queen and the Royal party were served tea under a separate marquee, and the gold service, which we have all heard so much about, was used. The other guests wandered up to the various marquees when they chose for tea. If you are curious to know what was served . . . well, there were raspberries with cream and all sorts of little cakes and everything else that goes to make a tea party. Many beautiful dresses were worn by the ladies. -Katharine Kingsmill DEI Pevensey Castle Pevensey Castle, a ruined Nor- man fortress in Sussex, England, was until recently a mass of crum- bling walls, piles of earth and debris, covered with ivy or brambles. The Office of Work has cleared away the brambles and ivy, and is strengthening the re- maining walls, cementing them stone by stone. Two Norman THE REVIEW dungeons, in perfect preservation, one a bottle shaped vault with only a hole in the top, have been uncov- ered, as well as the lower rooms of several towers. The outer walls, twelve feet thick, are of late Roman archi- tecture, and enclose an area of almost ten acres. They still re- main standing, in part, to a height of twenty-seven feet. The castle itself was originally built by Robert, half-brother of William the Conqueror, and was erected within the Roman wall. The site of the castle was the land- ing place of the Conqueror, and it is believed by some to be the spot at which Caesar landed. It boasts of an enormous keep, originally possibly eighty feet high, and four round towers. Of these only the shell and the ground fioors remain, with stone steps leading down to them. The rooms had fireplaces and were lighted by narrow slits. Pevensey Castle remains as a link with the past, a reminder of the once mighty Roman Empire. -R. Clemance DEI The Walls of Canterbury Among the half-dozen or more English towns which still possess remnants of their old mural de- fences, Canterbury holds an emin- ent position. Within its walls, in 39 spite of rai'ways and motors and the devastating effect of twentieth century advertising, there still hovers, in a hundred nooks and by- ways, the atmosphere of Eliza- bethan and pre-Reformation Eng- land. The wall itself is by no means complete-in fact, on the west side it has completely disappeared. From the East Station to the site of the old Riding Gate, there ex- tends a very well preserved section of this wall, with semicircular towers jutting up at frequent inter- vals. There were originally about seven or eight gates, but of this number one only-the West Gate -has been saved. Until well nto the last century, all of these gates were left standing, but one by one these ornaments were destroyed by the city until only one was left. And indeed, in 1850, even this was nearly wantonly sacrificed to facil- itate the entry of a visiting circus caravan. Such an incident as this cannot fail but throw into startling clearness the lack of appreciation possessed by the controllers of the city for its historic landmarks. -Kingsley Vogan EIU A Famous Clock VVells Cathedral has one of the most fascinating clocks in Eng- land. This clock, which was in- Pevenaey Castle and the Walla of Canterbury