Sujet

Clemening in Staffordshire, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Clemening in Staffordshire, 1857. 'Old customs still work in many of our country parishes; and, ere they succumb to the progress of civilisation, it becomes the duty of the journalist to take note of them. We are this day enabled to illustrate one curious custom - that of "Clemening" which is still observed in many villages of Worcessterhire and Staffordshire...St. Clement's-day falls on the 23rd of November...The children go the round of the parish begging apples, but open to receive anything else, and singing a doggerel form of words...Our Illustration is from a Sketch by Cuthbert Bede, taken on St. Clement's-day last. The farmhouse to which the children have come "Clemening" is the Mere, in the parish of Enville, a remarkably fine and well preserved specimen of Elizabethan architecture. It is built of red brick, with stone dressings, and is on the estate of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_488

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NA

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

32,7Mo (2,5Mo) / 33,3cm x 24,6cm / 3933 x 2905 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building buildings UK England people job house houses music architecture arts singing occupation British traditional tradition color custom rustic century Britain profession vocalist singer newspapers press begging concept typical B&W Staffordshire engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century rural The Print Collector Elizabethan Illustrated London News rural life TGN wood engraving ILN Edward Bradley outside newspaper Unknown Regionalism 19th-century Bradley Edward Edward Bradley (pseud. Cuthbert Bede) Cuthbert Bede