The Bleeding Tombstone

Another bright morning, but a bit chilly, but not complaining, left our over night mooring and off we set passing the villages Dadington, home of the Dog and Hedgehog pub,and Stoke Golding where the 13-C church spire dominates the landscape.

And on pass farmland with its yellow rape crop fields brighten the landscape.

And then we arrive at tonight's mooring just outside Trinity Marina at the hosiery town of Hinckley, a town that can boast of having installed the first stocking machine in Leicestershire in 1640.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinckley

Also at st. Mary's Church Is the mystery of the bleeding tombstone, in 1727 a twenty year old Richard Smith joined a crowd surrounding a army recruiting Sergeant who was trying to persuade the crowd to sign up, was heckled by the young Richard Smith. The Sergeant lost his temper and ran him through with his pike, killing Smith.So every April since this deed was committed the tombstone is suppose to ooze a red substance. An suggested explanation is this occurs due water dripping on a peculiar red sandstone and causing the tombstone to Sweat

The inscription reads

A fatal Halbert his mortal body slew,

The murdering hand God's vengeance will pursue

From shades terrestrial, though justice took her flight

Shall not the judge of all the earth do right

Each age and sex his innocence bemoans

And with sad sigh laments his dying groans.

The church also had a few other interesting curiosities.

Today at ,Hinckley was market day with stall running up the main shopping area, where we bought a few more provisions, we also went to Tescos for more food shopping before catching a taxi back to the boat.

We moored net to a marina so had to pay £ 5.00 for the privilege, a nice mooring next to a Brewers Fayre pub. So we spent the afternoon given the outside of the boat a wash and clean, before dinner and settling down for the night again.

A bit of good news is that Firkin went outside today for the first time, only on the back of the boat but its a start.

 

 

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