Students of Churchill School were inspired to make these artworks from this folktale: It is believed in 1662, there were a series of strange signs and apparitions believed to be warnings from God. One of these warnings was in the form of a parade of red spiders that marched through the streets of Bury St Edmunds until they reached the home of Sir John Duncombe, a knighted member of the late Parliament who had once been a Chancellor of the Exchequer. In front of his house were two great posts which the spiders spun an enormous web on preventing any of the staff from entering.
Legendary Essex note: We had to find out what happened next…apparently the servants fetched bales of hay and set them alight under the enormous web killing most of the invading creatures! The people of the time believed they were sent by witches.
