WORSHIP AT ABBEY
Not to be Stopped by
Hitler
(Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 16. The usual services will be held in Westminster in the nave on Sunday, when most of the debris will have been cleared. The Dean said: "We are not going to be blasted from worship by Hitler."— U.P.A.
years old and were used by Gladstone and Peel when they weivt to Oxford. They are facsimiles of those which were in the House of Commons.
In connection with the offer of beams of Australian hardwood to help repair the roof of • Westminster Hall, it is stated that, although the actual work cannot be undertaken until the end of the war. an earlier start will be made on fashioning the timbers if the offer is accepted.
The Rev. Mr. Perkins, who has been Sacrist at Westminster Abbey since 1899, estimates the cost of repairing the latest damage to the Abbey at £100,000 and the total cost of restoration for damage since September at £135,000—8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 115, 17 May 1941, Page 9
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