In late March, St Clement Danes Church, London, holds a ceremony in which oranges & lemons are given out to local schoolchildren. The church claims to be the one in the famous 'Oranges & Lemons' rhyme - these fruits were once brought ashore at a nearby quay. The church's bells play the rhyme's tune three times a day. Confusingly, another London church - St Clement's Eastcheap - also claims to be the one in the rhyme and ships unloaded citrus fruits close to it too. St Clement Danes features as an eerie ruin in George Orwell's 1984 as does the Oranges and Lemons rhyme. #FairytaleTuesday #history #folklore #churches #London #literature #books