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Thread: Can these hymn numbers be tied to a season?
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L'organist
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Well, both Frank Woods and Ged Muston were mad-keen on cricket and liked to know the score if a test match was ongoing.
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Corvo
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Originally posted by Corvo:
I have a vague memory of an old black and white film in which hymn number boards are used to communicate coded messages to secret agents.
It wasn't an old film I was thinking of, but an episode of Endeavour repeated last night on ITV3. The vicar communicated the name of a murderer (his own murderer as it turned out) using the hymn numbers to spell it out via the letters of the Periodic Table (being Morse it was a bit complicated!).
74 W
17 CL
18 AR
19 K
= W(Wallace) Clark
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Baptist Trainfan
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The old Midland Railway used to paint big locomotive numbers on the coal tenders. Trouble was, the tenders tended to get swapped between locomotives during overhaul, especially as the locos spent longer in maintenance.
So they tried slide-in hymn-board type numbers for a bit. It didn't work.
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Sandemaniac
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My father's funeral was held yesterday in this church and, inspired by you lot, I put the overnight score from Essex v Warks on the hymn board in question. Thank you for the idea,it went down very well.
AG
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wild haggis
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Maybe you all have it wrong and it was just the mad kids in the Sunday Schools having fun!
We used to change the hymn numbers put up for the evening service after the morning service had finished!
We often put up Christmas carol numbers in the middle of June.
But then again it was the Church of Scotland Hymn Book!!
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wild haggis
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churchgeek
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Originally posted by Spike:
Maybe they were just numbers picked by the photographer at random for the sake of the photograph
That would be hilarious.
Although, if the numbers had already been removed from the board, the photographer might have thought the board should have numbers, and put some random numbers up.
I'm curious, though - Could the #27 be the Psalm appointed for that day? I've seen that done in some places, but I'm in the US.
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