Question

What did the verger do before joining as a verger in ST . Peter's

Answer 1

Albert Edward Foreman had been verger at St Peter's, a fashionable church in Neville Square, London, for sixteen years. Albert Edward was very proud of his job and his church. But there was one special feature about Albert: he couldn't read or write. When one day a new vicar discovered this, he told him that unless he learnt to read and write within three months, he would lose his job. Albert Edward refused and the vicar gave him a month's notice to leave. That evening Albert sadly locked the church and began to walk home.