CHAINED TO BRIDE.
OLD SOMERSET CUSTOM. ENGLISH CRICKETER'S "LUCK SILVER." * N LONDON) December 31. An England cricketer and his bride were this week chained together after their wedding at •Watchet Methodist Church, Minehead, Somerset. The children who bound them would not let them go until they had paid "luck silver" to pass through the church gates. This Weßt Somerset custom is believed to bring good luck to a happy married life. The couple were Harold Gimblett, tho Somerset County cricketer, and Mis® Marguerite Burgess, of Watchet. Ciffr' lett, who is 24, made a startling debo* in first-class cricket in 1935. -..j Essex, at Frome, he 63 minutes, and so won the Irofmj y for the fastest hundred G i°s"in iSL •*** r) JSSivO~ ■' \ _ Mm
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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123CHAINED TO BRIDE. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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