A CURFEW LEGEND
In Chertsey, in Surrey, the Curfew bell rings from September 29 to March 25. Chertsey has more than the usual curfew interest, for it has connected with it a famous legend, which relates how, to save her lovers’ life, Blanche Herriott climbed to the tower of Chertsey Abbey and there seized the clapper of the great bell, determined that “curfew shall not ring to-night.” Thousand of audiences have thrilled and wept at the recitation of this mediaeval melodrama, but, on the whole, it is best described in Sir Harry Lauder's words: “Ay, it’s very pathetic, but it no’ true.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 29 January 1940, Page 10
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102A CURFEW LEGEND Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 29 January 1940, Page 10
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