Quo Vadis
Along the Station Road, there was for many years a gate opening into a field which everyone stopped to look at.
It was the gate leading into the field where the late Mr Walkden used to dry the herbs which he had brought to him in large quantities by the village people, and which he sent away to be used in the making of herbal medicines.
The words on the gate were printed in Latin and no one now living seems to know much about their meaning.
They read:-
Quo Vadis
Cave Canem
Et Serpentem
Semper Vigilans
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
Semper Virens
The translation is something like this:-
Where are you going
Beware of the dog
And the ever watchful serpent
Who shall guard the guards
The evergreen
On the gateposts was printed:-
Minerva Nil
Vincit Invicta
Omnia Minerva
knowledge Nothing
conquers conquers
all knowledge
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