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Old Stourbridge Fair At The Leper Chapel

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This article is about the Stourbridge Fair at the Leper Chapel. It was held here on the outskirts of Cambridge, and was at one time the biggest in England and some say, in Europe. Here is the Mayor of Cambridge, Councillor George Pippas, together with two proctors of the University of Cambridge. One of the … Read more

The Origin Of The Dreaming Spires Of Oxford

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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening. Matthew Arnold… inspector of schools, poet, and social critic who warned of, among other things, the dangers of sensationalist journalism and supernatural religion. The quote about dreaming spires is from his poem Thyrsis. It is a long poem – 1863 … Read more