Stockings nearly 100 years old were worn by Miss Margaret Harrison at her wedding at Braucepath, near Durham, recently, to Mr John 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 pole vaulting in the interuniversities championships. One of the wedding hymns, specially chosen by 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22353, 29 August 1934, Page 16
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