Thomas Hardy Funeral, Stinsford, Dorset (1928); BRITISH PATHÉ FILM SEQUENCE; and a "Tweet"

A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. "Heart of Thomas Hardy laid up to rest among his Wessex folk in Stinsford - his beloved 'Mellstock' of the novels. Dorset".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWHQTyxGcY0


"The heart of Thomas Hardy flew out of Stinsford churchyard....
There, in the heart of the nimbus, twittered the heart of Hardy..."

From The Heart of Thomas Hardy, by John Betjeman