| Show ORIGIN OF CURFEW BELL merely served as warning to cover fire in the time of william the conqueror so many towns ring the tha curfew bell t to 0 warn the children that 9 p in must find them safe in the home nest it is interesting to know that the curfew bell originated in the time of william the conqueror says a writer in ili the peoples home journal A curfew was a fire cover of metal shaped like a hood with a handle by which it was lifted it had an opening on one side and was about ten inches in height because fires in early days were made on large open hearths heart hs the smoke escaping through a hole in the roof fire risk wai waa great it was ordered that every householder before ref ng must cover his fire with a r i e feu meaning cover the fire ho he scraped the embers together at the of hearth putting the cover over them the open part close against the chimney A bell was rung in the market place at an early hour every night as a signal that people must extinguish their fires and go to bed the term curfew was associated with the ringing of the bell but in william the conquerors quer ors time a curfew was nothing more poetical than a plain metal fire extinguisher |
