SELBY ABBEY.
« After being in ruins for over,2oo years the south transept of Selby Abbey, Yorkshire, trkich hao been rebuilt at a cost of iJIO.OOO given by Mr.-William Liversidge, lira "Grand Old Man" of Sulby, was dedicntod on September 20 by tho Archbishop of'Yofk, who also unveiled.(he bwiutiful eouth ?win<low, the Rift of Mr. Liversidge. iThero was a civic procession from the town hall to tire abbey. Tho Archbishop in his sermon said that for the first time for 200.'years Selby Abbey jstands as it originally did in the shape ;of, the . Cross of Christ., The foundation of Selby. Abbey dales from 1069, and the abbey was 200 years in building- W was a mitred Benedictine house. After tho dissolution of the monasteries a period of decay set in, and in IG3O tho central tower fell, destroying the south transept.
Woods' Great Peppermint Care. If. Gd.* For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, Two London boys, aged thirteen and twelve, arrived at All Saints, near Axminster, Devon, recently, after n tramp of 200 miles, during which they slept six nights in the open, living principally, on bread and turnips and water.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1601, 19 November 1912, Page 8
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190SELBY ABBEY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1601, 19 November 1912, Page 8
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