100-YEAR-OLD STOCKINGS
■Stockings nearly 100 years old were worn by Miss Margaret Harrison at her wedding at Brancopeth, near Durham, recently, to Mr. .Tohn L. Longland, a member of the last Mount Everest expedition. They were cream silk stockings of cobweb texture and were worn by her great-grandmother at her wedding in 1837. Mr. Longland is a lecturer in English at the University of Durham. He is a prominent athlete, a Durham Rugby player, and gained distinction by his polevaulting in the Inter-Universities championships. One of the wedding hymns, specially chosen iby Mr. Longland. was “The 'Spacious Firmament on High.” On leaving, the bride and bridegroom passed through an arch of ice-axes held by Mr. Longland’s climbing friends. Among the gifts received by the bridegroom was an axe and a piece of rope.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 29, 29 October 1934, Page 3
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133100-YEAR-OLD STOCKINGS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 29, 29 October 1934, Page 3
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