<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;">Just a reminder that Saturday is Stroud Green Day. </span><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.7em;">This is the date of the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.7em;"><a href="
http://krappyrubsnif.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/mayor-and-corporation-of-stroud-green.html">Stroud Green Badge</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.7em;">, the </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">beautiful little enamel jewel that</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.7em;"> memorialises the day, July 26th 1773, that a certain Thomas Legg was elected "Mayor of the Ancient Corporation of Stroud Green" (young bucks' eighteenth-century drinking club) at the Stapleton Hall Tavern. This is the badge, now in the V&A:</span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><img src="
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SPgyhKv5agM/U84PEJ3K9tI/AAAAAAAAA-U/0v23S4dB8Wg/s1600/IMG_5358.JPG"><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">And here are the words of the original </span><a href="
http://krappyrubsnif.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/mayor-and-corporation-of-stroud-green.html" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Stroud Green Song</a></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial;">How shall we celebrate? </span></div></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div></div>
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