Funeral processions led by pall bearers bearing batons, feathermen, pages and mutes who carried wands
The 1st coach was the hearse:-
- Black with glass sides
- Gold and silver decorations
- Huge black ostrich feathers
- Six black horses
- Horses wore the ostrich feathers
Men wore full mourning suits and had crepe bands around their top hats
Mourning lengths
- Spouse was 12 months
- Child was 12 months
- Parent was 12 months
- Grandparents and siblings were mourned for six months
- uncles and aunts were mourned for two month
A widow wore black crepe for the year, but in most other cases black crepe was worn for two-thirds of the mourning period.
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I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things.
The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at.
It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track.
I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.
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