The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-30

lllchtS OF England, LDero mas Ialely
been placed a fitting tablet to the memo
ry OF this good and talented woman.
A two hours walk will bring you to
bright and glowing Malvern, set high up
against the glorious Malvern hills. 1t is
the quleteSt, handsomest, sunniest, Shad
lest, LATEST inland resort in all England.
thousands are here. but there is no ell
bowling, no jostling, no hurrying. Every
DOdy SaunterS, dozeS, dreams. a sense
Of lazy, unconstrained enjoyment broods
over the entire place and region. The
waters and the mountain air bring all the
people here, but these are not a 1.-THE of
the attractions.
A ten minutes walk upon the hills and
you are in rural England as the poets
sing OF it. Fruit trees shake their bios
SONS or their fruit in showers upon the
grass in odd hooks and corners of strug-
Cling hamlets. Each farmhouse and cot
ter's cottage stands in its own orchard,
brilliant with the sprays of pink and
white, or with balls of russell and gold,
according to the season. ChaffincheS and
robins are among the MOSES in all these
orchards. Black birds and thrushes are
everywhere III the thick strawberries of
the gardens and IN the tangled hedgerows
and coppices. Wrens, hedge warblers
and other tiny birds are in the matted
grasses, by the hedgerows and by the
shaded runnels in the bitches.
Everywhere, too, are the irregular
SNAPPED meadows, with their fantastic
hooks and corners, ana their sweet, rich
heritage, where dairy COWS and cattle
feeding up'' for the butcher pass their
tranquil lives literally in clover. There
IS always sure to be pretty pool under
the clufnp Of trees at one corner, or a shall
low stream ripping gently along at one
side, singing its way to the valleys from
the hills.
Not a;olt ~, Il az, o,,,o ,,., ~ n 60; 80 n =, n
towers of quaint old cathedral city.
This is ancient Worcester, that earned it's
title of the faithful city, in the time of
the commonwealth in so valiantly hold
ing Out against Cromwell for the King
Young Charles watched the last great bat
tie from the cathedral tower until the cit
liens, Vainly beating back the invaders,
gave him time to make his escape.
Cromwell reyenged the plucky resist
ance not so like ii butcher as at Drogheda,
/ but enough to leave the fair old city al
most silent and deserted for years, while
only the fowls OF the air gathered in its
rOotless and windoWless cathedral.
IN Worcester the old and the new touch
everywhere. Interesting among that
which is old are two of the most note
worthy monuments in England within
the cathedral. One is that OF King John,
the earliest royal edigy in any OF the
English churches. The other is the mon
ument to Bishop HOugh Of Magdalen
College celebrity, whom James II. sue
ceeded in making the English thoroughly
remember.
This mingling of the old and new is no.
tably characteristic Of Worcester There
are busting streets with broad pavementS
and busy river Wharves. There are noble
bridges, big warehouses and bigger man
utaCtOres with tall chimueyS, and long
rows OF brick co.lageS for Workmen.
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nave a hldeous samenesS and dreariness
about them.
But there are broad streets, sharply
turning odd corners and losing them
selves in the queerest Of lanes running up
and down the hills. There are weather
stained buildings, sacred and municipal,
preserved or restored, or partially rebuilt.
There is one venerable fortified, and an
other graceful medieval arch, while there
are streets and wynds and closes with an
tIquated names like FOrgate and the Fry
ars. So, too, there are many, many tim
bered houses with those fine old open gal
lerIeS which used to look down upon the
cOurtyards OF inns and hostelries-when
WagOners and cartInen liked to keep an
eye on their goods and guests shouted for
servants instead Of ringing for them.
But the Quaintest, sweetest place in all
the CotsWold and Malvern hills is ancient
Broadway. Broadway street is its old
and pleasant name, derived from that
great road or trackway leading from the
west OF England to London and the east
coast, and here anciently called the
"Bradwei," from the shepherds ''cottes
on the mountain wOlds down to the most
fruitful vale of Evesham."
1t is one long, wide, struggling street,
with large, open, triangular green, al
one end branching into two great roads,
one to Cheltenham and one to Evesham.
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here IS one of the few ancient stone built
villages of oIden England, left precisely
as its makers built it all the way from 300
| to 800 years ago, and without single
mark of modern Improvement upon it.
On every side are high-pitched, gabled
roofs, with wonderful stone and iron fin
ials, lnullioned windows and bays. loaded
! easements containing the original glass,
and huge, tall, stone chimney stacks, ali
Weathered to most beautiful colors Low
stone walls in front inclose little old
world gardens with clipped and fanciful-
ly-shaped yew trees.
There are two of the quaintest inns in
! England here. Coaches have been run tC
and from them, as now, for hundreds OF
years, for Broadway is beyond the sound
of therailway, and the restful hostelries
abound in interesting bits Of detail, old
oak doors and hinges, old glass easement
taStenlngS and most curious chimney
pieces, plaster ceilings and paneled
rooms. Every house has f1at-headed
| muIlioned windows, with massive wood
lintelS inside and huge baulks of oak
roughly squared and modelled over the
/ ingles and fireplaces. Near the village
green is the old Grange of the abbots OF
PershOre; in an old house at one end Of
the village colonies Of artists, some from
our own country, annually come and
live in what they call I'm Paradise, -
and from the summit OF Broadway hill
not only can you study scenes blending
into thirteen English shires, but hun
dreds of abbey barns and ancient stone
1armhouseS can be seen. In everyone o.
the latter tradition will tell you Charles
/. or Elizabeth passed night. How wise
of them to do SO if they had the time.
/ envied them and followed their ex.
ample wherever / could, and from thi:
mosSleSt of all west of England hooks
took enhancing strolls to Daylesford
( where Warren Hastings was born anG
where he died; to little Strenham where
Samuel Butler, author of "Hudibras, 81
was born; to Chipping Campden, site Of
the ancient "Cotswold gamesn of the
time OF James l., upon which Johnson
Drayton and other poets wrote, and
whose rhymes were published in quaint
old volume called "Annalia Dubrensia, .
in 1856; to Winchcombe, asleep by The
babbling osborne stream, with its ruin OF
once famous mitered abbey and its sac
memories of the poisoning of the Queen
dowager, Catharine Parr; to Cleeve Prior
hung like nest upon the cliffs above the
Avon, and to Evesham, Queen of noble
Evesham vale, rising from the banks Of
the Avon and backed by venerable tow
ers, antique churches and the ivied walls
of its once hourishing abbey. One anC
ALL idyllic spots and hours were these
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