Mary Had a Little Lamb Tombstone Part 1

A weird and wonderful documentary which travels through time and space, recording the curiosities of Broadwater Cemetery Worthing, presented twice by the same person aged 15 and 17. The film quality is very amateur and self-consciously teenage but intriguing at least for showing the last resting places of Mary Hughes heroine of the rhyme Mary had a little lamb, Richard Jefferies the English writer and Henry Hudson the Naturalist. They are also interesting for showing what a great difference 730 days can make.
Filmed on the same day in 1995 and in 1997 directed by Ed Faulder and Presented by Stewart Burzio.

Mary Hughes death was recorded in The Worthing Gazette on Saturday 12 December 1931: And Mary is dead. Do not try to explain it to little children for they will not believe you. They will tell you that she has gone away to play among the lambs she loved so well. So Mary is dead, and yet she will never die, her memory will go on for ever, immortal. When she was about six years old her little lamb followed her to school and frolicked until the mistress turned him out. That was why a Miss Buel who was staying at the farm at the time wrote the little verse. While children live and play it will not die.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Mary Hughes
• had a little lamb
• documentary
• 1995
• 1997
• rhyme
• Broadwater cemetery
• Worthing
• time travel
• Richard Jefferies
• Henry Hudson
• Tombstone
• Kinch
• lack
• 2011
• 2012

[priapus56]

How vain kids are these days...

[JethroKrull]

And and a 53 year old man who calls himself priapus is not?

[priapus56]

There is nothing vain about that. I'll show you one day.