The Vicar of St Ives says the smell of fish there is someti… - Francis Kilvert

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The Vicar of St Ives says the smell of fish there is sometimes so terrific as to stop the church clock.

Francis Kilvert

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Robert Francis Kilvert (3 December 1840 – 23 September 1879), known as Francis or Frank, was an English clergyman whose diaries reflected rural life in the 1870s, and were published over fifty years after his death.

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