. Vanishing England . rds its portals. Upon the swinging sign the followinglines are inscribed :— Stop, traveller, this wondrous sign explore,And say when thou hast viewed it oer and oer,Grantham, now two rarities are thine—A lofty steeple and a Living- Sign. The connexion of the George with Charles Dickensreminds one of the numerous inns immortalized by thegreat novelist both in and out of London. The GoldenCross at Charing Cross, the Bull at Rochester, theBelle Sauvage (now demolished) near Ludgate Hill,the Angel at Bury St. Edmunds, the Great White OLD INNS 243 Horse at Ipswich, the Kings H
. Vanishing England . rds its portals. Upon the swinging sign the followinglines are inscribed :— Stop, traveller, this wondrous sign explore,And say when thou hast viewed it oer and oer,Grantham, now two rarities are thine—A lofty steeple and a Living- Sign. The connexion of the George with Charles Dickensreminds one of the numerous inns immortalized by thegreat novelist both in and out of London. The GoldenCross at Charing Cross, the Bull at Rochester, theBelle Sauvage (now demolished) near Ludgate Hill,the Angel at Bury St. Edmunds, the Great White OLD INNS 243 Horse at Ipswich, the Kings Head at Chigwell (theoriginal of the Maypole in Barnaby Rudge), the4Leather Bottle at Cobham are only a few of thosewhich he by his writings made famous. Leaving Grantham and its inns, we push along thegreat North Road to Stilton, famous for its cheese, wherea choice of inns awaits us—the Bell and the Angel,that glare at each other across the broad the palmy days of coaching the Angel had stabling. A Quaint Gable. The Bell Inn, Stilton for three hundred horses, and it was kept by MistressWorthington, at whose door the famous cheeses weresold and hence called Stilton, though they were madein distant farmsteads and villages. It is quite a modern-looking inn as compared with the Bell. You can see adate inscribed on one of the gables, 1649, but this canonly mean that the inn was restored then, as the style ofarchitecture of this dream in stone shows that it mustdate back to early Tudor times. It has a noble swingingsign supported by beautifully designed ornamental iron-work, gables, bay-windows, a Tudor archway, tiled roof,and a picturesque courtyard, the silence and dilapidation 244 VANISHING ENGLAND of which are strangely contrasted with the continuousbustle, life, and animation which must have existed therebefore the era of railways. Not far away is Southwell, where there is the historicinn the Saracens Head. Here Charles I stayed, andyou can see the very ro
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