Dead Rats, Stoned Teachers and Sergeant Monday June 14, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Sergeant Monday was a festival in the north-western English town of Kendal for the installation of a new mayor. Basically this was a Saturnalia for the children of the town: and by ancient convention any students in school would be ‘battered out’ by older boys, who would intimidate teachers into silence. Hundreds of kids would then […]
Practical Joke: The Wife Hunter July 16, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Practical jokes were often fairly of poor fare in the nineteenth century. However, there is something amusingly diabolical about this one, particularly if you remember that no one died and that the wife hunter learnt that there were probably better ways to find true love . It appears that a Manchester tradesman short time ago […]
