It is around 10 years since I visited Ashby de la Zouch town centre. To make things even more ancient it must be around 50 years since I sat in the pews of St. Helen’s Church. Then I was some disreputable youth who was rebelling against anything you might wish to mention. Oh how half a century can knock an awful lot of rebellious edges off of a person.

What I didn’t know all those years ago was that just metres away was final resting place of one of the best connected couple in Tudor England. The second Earl Huntington and especially his wife Katherine Pole had connections and blood lines that were probably better than the then current king Henry the 8th.

Now, of course, I’m fascinated by grave, the alabaster, which was probably quarried locally at Chellaston and the carvings probably created at Burton upon Trent or maybe Coventry. I could go on and I’m sure my feckless youth version would be yawning. Thankfully, I’m not that person.