SOME FIERY NULTIALS.
• Orle -is' becoming quite familiar with watery weddings (says'.the ."Westminster Gazette"), but fiery nuptials,, sucli. as, those , of which. Mexborough , Church,near Doricastijr, was the scene recently, when the firemen had to suspend their work' with tlie hose during the c'oremony, are still somewhat of a nov'elty.,; A : few years, ago, one.recalls;' a similar scene was witnessed in Stl Nicholas's Church, Strood, n(>ar .Rochester. :. A' fire; broke out in the belfry tower; bells'and'roof collapsed, and 'the tower was completely gutted. Just as, tho flames'were at, last being subdued a bridal party, entered the church, and the nuptial knot wag'tied to an ■ accompaniment of swishing hoses and showers of sparks. Ah equally romantic wedding took place not long ago at West-Orchard Congregational Church, Coventry.. The church had been almost destroyed by fire, tho, roof-had fallen in, and the building , lay in' ruins.-; And yet, the wreckage was- still smouldering, an undaunted couple were united .amid the debris of in-one of tho remaining aisles. -
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 3
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164SOME FIERY NULTIALS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 3
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