Posts Tagged ‘Lincoln Cathedral’

Flying Buttress Lincoln Cathedral #FindBritain September 2010

Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Flying Buttress at Lincoln Cathedral Chapter House

Flying Buttress at Lincoln Cathedral Chapter House

Scouts trample old dears to death in St Georges Day parade

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Dramatic headlines I’m sure you will agree and not one you would expect to see in the peaceful environs of the City of Lincoln’s uphill area. This shocking event did indeed take place one Sunday as the massed bands of the District Scout Groups led a column of well drilled St Georges Day marchers around the Cathedral, across the square and into the castle.

One might associate a Boy Scout, and perhaps the occasional Girl Guide or Brownie with someone who runs amok in the woods, lighting campfires and generally getting dirty in the most ill disciplined of fashions. The modern movement however is one that has benefited from decades of progress in training on “how to handle the yoof”.

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As I walked out to the Morning Star

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

As I walked out to the Morning Star
The Cathedral cast its mark,
Its lowering shadows enveloped the pub
And the sky grew unusually dark.

The Church, the beacon, was not yet lit
Too soon to call it night,
Though its luminous power would later shine forth
By the trick of electric light.