The Henson Journals
Tue 14 April 1931
Volume 52, Page 150
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Tuesday, April 14th, 1931.
We 'took up our carriages', and made our journey to Cambridge, stopping at Corby to lunch with Brooke and Fosca, and having tea at "The Old Bridge Hotel in Huntingdon.
The weather, which was uncertain when we started, improved as the day advanced, and the final stage of the route was brilliant.
Mrs Burkitt received us with kindness, and disclosed amply those conversational powers, which made her the wonder of acquaintances and the terror of friends! There came to dine Mr & Mrs Scott, lately returned from Japan. He asked me whether I knew Alfred Spelling, and said that he was at school with him at Chigwell.
Brooke showed us the parish church of Corby. It is a fair specimen of a medieval parish church, not on the largest scale. The 13th century font was rather unusual: and the chancel was distinguished by an elaborate "Easter Sepulchre", or, possibly, the frame of a tomb.