Exert - page 67 from Circular Walks around Rowley Hall by Andrew Lanyon

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In the 1980s the vicar of St Ives said 'the stench (of fish) is so terrific as to stop the church clock'. By Walter's day, fishing had declined and the town smelled instead of turps, that embalming fluid with which artists stop time.





















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