Tho old smithy at Gretna Green, famous the world over, may soon cease to be the scene of romantic marriages over the anvil The Committee on Scottish Marriage Law recommends the abolition of Gretna Green and its irregular marriages. The committee's report states that actually there never was a blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green, but a man named Mackie exploited the romantic stories by fitting up a room with an anvil and con ducting "marriages," his income from this source reached £2000 a year. Richard Rennison, seen above with the anvil, has been carrying on the establishment for some years, and says he will continue to marry people until the law abolishes it.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 34, 24 February 1937, Page 9
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113Tho old smithy at Gretna Green, famous the world over, may soon cease to be the scene of romantic marriages over the anvil The Committee on Scottish Marriage Law recommends the abolition of Gretna Green and its irregular marriages. The committee's report states that actually there never was a blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green, but a man named Mackie exploited the romantic stories by fitting up a room with an anvil and con ducting "marriages," his income from this source reached £2000 a year. Richard Rennison, seen above with the anvil, has been carrying on the establishment for some years, and says he will continue to marry people until the law abolishes it. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 34, 24 February 1937, Page 9
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