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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Thu May 8, 2014, 05:40 AM May 2014

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross

But which one? There were three Banbury Crosses at one time. The High Cross, The Bread Cross, and The White Cross. The crosses were destroyed by Puritans in 1600 for being Popish. The current Banbury Cross was erected in 1859 to commemorate the marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal to Prince Frederick of Prussia.

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Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross (Original Post) My Good Babushka May 2014 OP
It had not occurred to that it was the religious symbol. surrealAmerican May 2014 #1
Sometimes they were just poles My Good Babushka May 2014 #2

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1. It had not occurred to that it was the religious symbol.
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Thu May 8, 2014, 08:08 AM
May 2014

I had assumed it was a crossroads or a river crossing or the like.

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My Good Babushka

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2. Sometimes they were just poles
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Thu May 8, 2014, 09:22 AM
May 2014

or poles with canopies of sorts, erected at crossroads, at which market vendors congregated. I don't know why they were Popish, either.

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