GRIMY WEDDING DAY IN OLD LONDON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17878, 21 June 1926, Page 8

GRIMY WEDDING DAY IN OLD LONDON.

That the proletariat still preserves a sense of .humour was illustrated at a Bank Holiday' wedding (says a London correspondent.) One of the principals was a coal-hewer—a man of great popularity among his fellows. With a proper sense of the fitness of things, his many friends rolled up attired in their usual working clothes and armed with bags of soot instead of the conventional confetti. Directly the happy pair emerged from the registry office they were smothered with soot. The ordinary person would, possibly, have been a little annoyed by this grimy meeting, but the jovial coalheaver and his blushing bride entered heartily into the spirit of the thing. A motor lorry full of coal was the bridal equipage, and. mounting this, and attended by a bodyguard of his fellows, who' caused great hilarity by pouring coal dust down the necks of the newly-married pair, the couple drove off amid the enthusiastic cheers of the vast crowd. Bakers, I understand, have been fired to emulation by this pretty conceit, and it is intended, on the first possible occasion, to stage a baker’s wedding, at which Hour will be used instead of confetti.