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3. THE VILLAGE BELLRINGER.

In late Victorian times, the newspaper and the telegraph were standard means of communication in larger centres. In villages like Dunning the bellringer or town crier - often as in Dunning connected with the local post-office - was being displaced as the bearer of important public tidings. This photograph of the 1890's looks as if it might have been posed to capture a tradition slipping away. The children in the photograph would certainly have been familiar with newspapers for by 1844 a public reading room had been set up, and Dunning was receiving a considerable number of newspapers regularly. Dunning was in fact quite a literate place by this era. A Dunning Literary Society existed in the 1880's if not earlier - some material in this book comes from an historical talk given to that group in 1889. In 1909 a library was added to the village hall, and Dunningites had become prodigious readers.

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