Maldon: Tally-ho all (From Essex County Standard)
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Maldon: Tally-ho all
9:31am Tuesday 2nd January 2007 in News By Gill Mariner
Chin, chin - Clare Fern, landlady of The Swan Hotel serves drinks to John Meyer, on Marlowe, and other members of the Essex Farmers And Union Hunt in Maldon. Picture: ADRIAN RUSHTON (53414-5)
The Essex pro-hunting lobby carried the day as hundreds gathered to greet the traditional post-Christmas meet.
Cheers and clapping by a large crowd in Maldon High Street welcomed the Essex Farmers and Union Hunt as it clattered into the Swan Hotel yard for the traditional stirrup cup.
Hardly a dissenting voice was heard - only a few murmured hopes that the hounds wouldn't actually kill anything, accidentally or on purpose, during their New Year's Day chase across farmland east of the town.
