RIPON AND ITS HORN
TOWH GETS A BIG “ BLOW " Since the day when Alfred the Great presented the city of Ripon with a horn in token of the Charter, it has been continuously used in that quaint old Yorkshire town to sound the close of each day. • Sharp at 9 o’clock the official horn blower, garbed in ancient costume, parades the market square and sounds three loud, clear notes which echo through tho town. The Wakeman’s horn was given to the city in the year 886, and 700 years later an ordinance required the horn to he blown according to ancient custom at the four corners of the cross each evening. Later three blasts aro sounded outside the dwelling of tho mayor. The horn itself is regarded as a wonderful example of old workmanship, and -to-this-'day -Is worn by the' Sergcant-at-Maco on all ceremonial occasions.
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Evening Star, Issue 21623, 19 January 1934, Page 2
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145RIPON AND ITS HORN Evening Star, Issue 21623, 19 January 1934, Page 2
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