ANCIENT CORNISH TOWN
A petition was lately presented to the King pvaving His Majesty to intervene sentence of death pronounced by the Ministry of Health on the ancient Cornish market town of Callington. Unless eleventh-hour efforts succeed, Calliimton was to die as a municipality with the first week of A.pri) and become merged n the rural district of St. Germans. Tf it must cease to bo an independent, town, Callington decided to die gallantly and picturesquely. • . The members of the council were to attend a “funeral” service at the Most End Methodist Church. The “ funeral sermon was to be preached by the -Rev. R. Pyke, a well-known West Country Methodist minister, and later the chairman of the council was to doff for ever the handsome gold chain of office which the Marquess of Northampton, as Lord of the Manor, presented to the town.
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Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 7
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143ANCIENT CORNISH TOWN Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 7
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