Aug. 4th, 1875. I took the train to Great Malvern. Here I met Thomas Steed and R.V. Morris at the home of T. Steed's brother in Worcester. After dinner we took a walk on Malvern Hill and had a very nice view of the country, north, south and west. It is a delightful country where fifteen counties and shires can be seen from this hill. When a boy, Brother Steed used to take people up and show the attractions.
Malvern is a watering place for the better class of society. It is a nice, clean, well-ornamented place population 4,500. We visited the place, were shown through the Abbey, nine hundred years old, now used as a chapel. It is a very substantial building with high ceilings and figured glass in the windows - a process not now used, perhaps not known. In one window we see a representation of the first of the creation, with the sun, moon, and stars formed. In other windows, the growth of trees, grass, shrubbery, etc; then animal, bird and insect life; then a man asleep while his rib is being taken out; then partaking of the forbidden fruit; then the hiding in the garden; then the driving out; then the work with the infant Cain in Eve's lap; the first murder and the angel appearing. The residents here must be mostly wealthy.
Thomas Steed's record for this day finally catching up with Jacob.
ReplyDeleteAugust 4. Along the top of the hill, above the Malvern Wells, we walked to the Camp Hill to see John Mathews, the brother of William Mathews; he rents a farm at Heaventain and we had an interesting talk with him concerning his brother William and family in America. (See page 11, Steed Genealogy.) Coming back to the Wyche we found Jacob Miller at my brother, Henry steed. It was a joy to take him along the blind man walk to St. Ann's well, where we had a good drink of pure water; together we also visited the old Abbey Church, dating of the 9th Century.