Show curfew for english town in olden days a bell was run rung soon after sunset signifying that tt it wan wail time for people to put out their firle 1 and go to bed and that this rin ringing gini was known as the curfew the of this custom Is rather doubtful bw bur it Is thought that it was probably in produced trod by william the conqueror and was doubtlessly intended to pro pre vent fires occurring most of the dwelling places then being constructed of wood during henrys reign however this idea was abolished and since then it has become one of the quaint old customs of the past now however poole a town in england has decided to go back to these days and ring q curfew every evening at eight ocl ocil I 1 wonder if everybody in poole will obey the original summons of this old bell nod and host hasten en off to bed at this early hour it seems d decidedly unlikely I 1 |