This is the grave of Samuel Crompton at Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, the famous British inventor of the spinning mule which aided the industrial revolution.
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Pearls are mentioned nine times in the Bible and are symbolic of something precious and valuable. The most famous example of this, and which remains in common parlance, is heaven’s ‘pearly gates’:
Revelation 21:21: And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
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St Peter & St Paul’s Church in the Lincolnshire village of Reepham is one of those medieval churches which has been much restored, improved, meddled with and messed around. Despite this, the building is still quite satisfying and we were delighted to find it unlocked.
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Richard de Bold was my 24x great-grandfather, who died in 1211. He was lord of the manor of Bold which is in old Lancashire but present-day Merseyside. Bold is an odd word for a place and a surname. The Bold Parish Council’s site cheerfully offers the following explanation:
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