184 REMINISCENCES OF OLD ALLESTREE. 
stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, 
and that men will say, as they look upon the labour and wrought 
substance of them, ‘See! this our fathers did for us.’ For, 
indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor 
in its gold; its glory is in its age.” If we take these words to 
heart, we shall, each in his sphere, be found preservers of all 
historic landmarks of past times. 
I AND 2, FROM WIRKSWORTH ; 3, KEDLESTON. 
