Sylvia Townsend Warner in England - 15 February, 1952
from The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, pages 186-187:
We spent the morning listening to the King's funeral. Good things were - the muffled Westminster bells: the iron-chain noise of the feet of the ratings and the troops (just like Great Eye's beach after storm) and the ripple of the horse-hoofs. Big Ben tolling once a minute for each year (56) of the King's life; above all, at Paddington & at Windsor, the pipe-playing. I think I have never heard better, especially Macheidlhe - I don't know how to spell it - the Cameronian tune: strange how small, after the long piping and marching up to St George's, the actual church … more >>
Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Claire Harman (ed.), The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (:London, 1995), p. 186-187. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1443008102440 accessed: 26 December, 2024
Listeners
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 15 February, 1952 |
| Medium | broadcast |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |