IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER
ALAN CROSBY lives in Lancashire and is the editor of The Local Historian
A laconic entry recorded among the burials at the parish church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, for 10 December 1577 reads “John dyed in ye streate”. Winter, with its ice and frost, freezing winds and deep snows, was when parish clerks and clergy, writing up the registers, might have to note such cases –
