A Canterbury Pilgrimage

By Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell18853 chapters

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Contents

• First Day (opens in a new tab)

  The Pennells leave London in the early morning on their tricycle, by Holborn, London Bridge and the Old Kent Road to Deptford, then through Blackheath, Crayford and the hop-picking tramps to Dartford and Gravesend, and reach Rochester by evening, where they sleep at the Queen's Head, the C.T.C. headquarters.
• Second Day (opens in a new tab)

  The morning walk round Rochester, where the cathedral is closed for cleaning, then the ride through Chatham, the marshes and the hop-gardens to Sittingbourne, where a London watchmaker and his wife quarrel over their tandem and dislike Americans. The afternoon climb of Boughton Hill and Harbledown brings them at dusk to the Falstaff inn in Canterbury.
• Third Day (opens in a new tab)

  A morning walk through Canterbury with the priest they met the night before, past the Hospital of St. Thomas and the town crier, to the cathedral. There they are marshalled by a verger to the shrine, and the book closes with the verger's account of Henry VIII's destruction of the shrine and the word FINIS.