Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1894 Excerpt: ... PART I THE NEW SCHOOL AT MUGGLETON Muggleton is not a mushroom town like Chicago and Middlesborough: it can boast of a history;--of a visit from Queen Elizabeth; of a magnificently illuminated charter with a portrait of Charles the Second in the corner; of having been stormed by Cromwell, frightened by the Pretender, rabbled in the thirties, harried by the Salvation Army in the eighties; it preserves a ducking-stool and scold's bridle in the council-chamber of the town hall; fragments of Roman pottery, found when digging the out-fall of the new sewer, in its museum. The parish church was built by a Crusader in expiation of some act of doubtful morality; the southernmost arch of the town bridge dates from Edward the First; the neighbouring common is traversed by a mound and ditch of unknown antiquity. Altogether it is a proud thing to be a native of Muggleton, and its inhabitants are not unduly lifted up. Within the last fifty years Muggleton has considerably expanded. Several important industries have established themselves there: all forms of engineering, chemical works, paper-mills, cement works, manure works; for Muggleton has the good fortune to stand on a navigable river near a coal-field. The expansion of Muggleton has not conducted itself in accordance with artistic prejudices as to the nature of what is beautiful. Around the centre formed by the market-place, town hall, parish church, parish stocks, and police court, the ancient streets have extended themselves into unlovely miles of artisans' houses, occupying what used to be the suburban beauties of Muggleton--a cause of endless wailing to the spinster daughters of past Muggletonian Mayors. Butchers' shops, dried-fish shops, undertakers' establishments, share with public-houses the best frontages ...
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