. Vanishing England . e chimney-piecewas an inscription in brass : Orato pro anima ThomaeBird, &c. They brought me a draft of their drink in abrown bowl, tipt with silver, which I drank off, and at thebottom was a picture of the Virgin with the child in herarms done in silver. So we took leave. . The inscription and the brown bowl (which is amazer cup) still remain, but the picturesque front of thehospital, built in the reign of Edward VI, disappearedduring the awful improvements which took placeduring the fifties. A drawing of it survives in thelocal museum. IN STREETS AND LANES 103 Maldon, t
. Vanishing England . e chimney-piecewas an inscription in brass : Orato pro anima ThomaeBird, &c. They brought me a draft of their drink in abrown bowl, tipt with silver, which I drank off, and at thebottom was a picture of the Virgin with the child in herarms done in silver. So we took leave. . The inscription and the brown bowl (which is amazer cup) still remain, but the picturesque front of thehospital, built in the reign of Edward VI, disappearedduring the awful improvements which took placeduring the fifties. A drawing of it survives in thelocal museum. IN STREETS AND LANES 103 Maldon, the capital of the Blackwater district, is to theeye of an artist a town for twilight effects. The pic-turesque skyline of its long, straggling street is accen-tuated in the early morning or afterglow, when muchundesirable detail of modern times below the tiled roofsis blurred and lost. In broad daylight the quaintness ofits suburbs towards the river reeks of the salt flavour 0£^I{ ? \i ? : :.-:•? Jii-. mm *&#< c <u Maldon, Essex. Sky-line of the High Street at twilighi of W. W. Jacobss stories. Formerly the town was richwith such massive timber buildings as still appear in theyard of the Blue Boar—an ancient hostelry which wasevidently modernized externally in Pickwickian exploring in the outhouses of this hostel Mr. Roelighted on a venerable posting-coach of early nineteenth-century origin among some other decaying vehicles, acuriosity even more rare nowadays than the Gothicking-posts to be seen in the picturesque half-timberedbilliard-room. The country around Maldon is dotted plentifully with 104 VANISHING ENGLAND evidences of past ages ; Layer Marney, with its famoustowers ; DArcy Hall, noted for containing some of thefinest linen panelling in England ; Beeleigh Abbey, andother old-world buildings. The sea-serpent may still beseen at Heybridge, on the Norman church-door, one of
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