BENCHMARKS continued
Winston Churchill was a fellow who indulged in the odd good rant. On one occasion shortly after the Great War finished he had a right old go at the two traditions in the North bellowing
“Every institution, almost, in the world was strained. Great Empires have been overturned. The whole map of Europe has been changed. The position of countries has been violently altered. The modes of thought of men, the whole outlook on affairs, the grouping of parties, all have encountered violent and tremendous changes in the deluge of the world.
But as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short, we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again. The integrity of their quarrel is one of the few institutions that has been unaltered in the cataclysm which has swept the world.”Actually Benchmarker finds some of the steeples there far from dreary but rather quite charming and attractive. For example this one on Saint Eugene's Ardstraw, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone.
Below: The 'mark on the Church of Ireland, Newtownstewart.
Above: Saint Eugene's Ardstraw with the 'mark just to the left of the door at bottom.