On Monday it was the anniversary of the end of WW1. Here is a link to my song about what happened on the 11th November 1918 in Torquay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbYU_q37HPU
Come celebrate the war is over
An armistice has been signed
It's the eleventh of November
By sea the news has arrived
From HMS Onyx
Great news was received
In Torquay's harbourside
Of the victory that was achieved
Come celebrate the war is over
An armistice has been signed
It's the eleventh of November
By sea the news has arrived
Marching from St Marychurch
The New Zealand troops in Torquay
They were singing at Castle Circus
A great joy to hear and to see
The Mayor led the crowd in cheers
For Sir Douglas Haig
The Prime Minister, King and Queen
And the national anthem was played
Crowds of joyful people
On the pavements and in the road
Applause erupted for the Mayor
Later fireworks would explode
Come celebrate the war is over
An armistice has been signed
It's the eleventh of November
By sea the news has arrived
I visited Exeter library on Tuesday and saw that there was a copy of the Devon book by WG Hoskins that I had looked at in Torquay library. I had another look at it and then realised that I had got some of the pages muddled up with the book by Cherry and Pevsner. The reference to the wanton boys smashing the medieval glass is in the Hoskins book, not the Cherry and Pevsner book.
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