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Page 4 AL TAP 0). EUROPE, A TRIP TO EUROPE (Cant.) Ninth 'article in the series by Miss square, arising from the center of the Margaret Laundy. building was not so called as might be ; ENGLAND (Continued) thought from its shape but due to the As was our custom on arriving in a'new" fact that it originally held e lantern city we headed directly for an information. which guided travellers thro a nearby center to collect pamphlets and inquire about forest. '| city tours. We found in York instead of the Holy Trinity Church a very tiny usual competitive tours a system of volunteer version of the minster has preserved guides who after some study devoted their as it was over a 100. years ago with a Sunday afternoons and off hours to walking rough uneven stone floor, tall wooden tourists through the most interesting parts box pews (where sitting with your back of the old city. Strangely enough our guide to the Minister was quite acceptable, was a young Australian woman who found this and a special walled in chapel on one not only an interesting pastime but a good . side of the nave for those with infectiov: way to meet people. -- diseases who were not allowed to mix "The History of York is the history of with the general congregation. A "squint" England", She pointed out parts of fortif- .or large puphole in the wall allowed the icationwalls built by the Romans almost 2,000 _ priest to syncronize his com.union with years ago, added on to by the Saxons, that being given at the high altar. In Normans and so on, each era distinguishable many parts of the church could be found by its style of building or its typical bricks the symbols of the old guilds or trade and mortar. York was at one time a completely unions. In the corner of each stained walled city and 24 miles of this wall are glass:was a pixie with long beard, the ' still standing - just a nice walk along the symbol of.the York glass makers guild. top of it for a Sunday afternoon. Of course On the corner of the pews was a small as the city expanded it built outside the mouse denoting the cavpenters guild and walls. As we walked through the old streets so On. we saw torch snuffers at many doorways, We left York (not having tasted long inverted metal cones, where, in the Yorkshire pudding) for Newcastle-on-Tyne days before street lights, night travellers where the English spoken resembles a 'could extinguish their torches. Wide mouthed compromise between Scottish and Irish, lead drainpipes running down the sides of Then we followed west close to the Engl::" the older houses had most unusual designs Scottish border, beside the Roman wall with grotesque heads or simply the initials which was originally built to keep back of the builder and the date. the barbarian tribes to the north, (all A city in England is distinguished from Scots please note). We ¢rossed over a a town not by a population of over 12,000 #3 wooden bridge marked England on one end in Canada but by the presence of a cathedral. and Scotland on the other and stopped eat Yorkminster (minster meaning a cathedral or a small inn,.originally a hitching post seat. of a bishop), placing York in the city for stage coaches, in Gretna Green. This category contains the oldest stained glass Little town has a long and colourful in England dating back to 1200, Did you : history spiced with the tales of its know that genuine stained glass:casts a marrying blacksmith who wed many underaged clear light not a reflection tinted by its . couples who had run away from their homes own colours as does the coloured glass of in England against their parents wishes. today? The secret of producing stained The precedure was not banned by law until! glass died with its makers and has never as recently as 1940, been rediscovered. The windows at the back of the high altar are as large as tennis 0-0-0 courts but due to the immense proportions of the whole church they did not look their size. In the left transcept stand the "Five CHRISTMAS SEAL CAMPAIGN Sisters Window", standing 57 feet high, a Terrace Bay ninth in the province of memcrial to the five women's war services Ontario per capita in the purchase of and adopted from a tapestry worked by twr Christmas Seals. Thanks Terrace Bay fz sisters. The pattern is a geometrical your support in the purchase of Christma design of many colours containing over 300, Seals, : 'O00 pieces and none more than 2 inches in diameter. The Lantern Tower, a large 0-0-0 (Cont. on next col.) ee