'Church on the Hill' finally gets its flag!
After several decades without one, possibly even around a hundred years according to old photographic records, All Saints Church at Langport finally has a flag mast again.
The 6-metre pole was erected last Tuesday night by local bellringers Bill Langford and Greg Bown.
In scenes that could have come straight out of a Carry On film, the pair chose not to use a spirit level to check it was perpendicular but instead looked out the top of the tower across Langport and Huish Episcopi and phoned people whose houses they could see to ask them to go outside and "tell us if our flag pole's straight"
The nonsense didn't end there either. The two spent so long up there fixing it in position that by the time they got back down, the church caretaker had been by and locked up for the night.
But all's well that ends well and it's mission accomplished.
The pole, from the Hampshire Flag Pole Company near Portsmouth, was paid for by the Langport & District Friendly Society.
Many thanks also to others who helped and gave their time and advice including Dave Allibone, Nick Durnan, Steve 'Worm' Paull, Tommy Tulk and Malcolm Eastment.
Thanks also to the Churches Conservation Trust which gave permission for the work to be carried out and to Greg Bown for coordinating the project and bringing all the parties together.
Finally, before we sign off, let's take a close-up look at what in flag pole speak we call 'the finial' which come to think of it....must now be the highest thing in Langport:
Fantastic, must be the biggest knob in the town too and up there for many many years to come we hope!
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