THE EXPLOSIVE BEER MUGS
The "Fenny Poppers," a battery of six guns which are the proud possession of the picturesque Buckinghamshire village of Fenny Stratford, have been fired annually on St. Martin's Day for more than 150 years. In. more recent years they have been used also to mark days of national festival thanksgiying; or mourning. The guns are officially said to resemble "myxoedtmatous quart ipoits with hypertrophied1 handles." To you and I they loolc like large beer mngs made of gunmetal. Eaeh weig'hs '20 pounds and is severi inches high. The ibore is six' inches long with a calibre of 11 inches. Charged with 4 ounces of powder and detonated by the application of a red-hot rod to the touch 'hole, they produce a most saticfactory bang. Inadvertently aimed in the wrong.direction one year, the charge peppered t'he fence surrounding the local inn and also the leg of a small boy hanging thereon to watch the -fun. In 1905 there was another incident. Then the vicar, a jovial man, secretly introduced a couple -of genuine .seige pieces into the proceedings with t'he result that pradtically every windo'w in the parish was shattered, The firing is followed -by a dinner, when a very good time is had by all
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 2
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209THE EXPLOSIVE BEER MUGS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 2
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