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FEUDAL CASTLES AND GREAT ESTATES IN THE NEWS: ALNWICK AND SYON TO BE OPENED TO THE PUBLIC; PRESERVING RAGLAN; ..

... health at Northumberland House, and he was threatened with a prosecution for murder in consequence of two men having been killed in an election riot at Brentford, near Syon House. The Duke died at Syon in 1786, and he was buried with great pomp in Westminster ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1193 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HOME NEWS in PICTURES: A RECORD OF EVENTS IN LONDON AND THE PROVINCES

... views in all directions. Near the north-east corner is a stone cross marking the spot where Bishop Samuel Wilberforce was killed while out riding in 1873. There will be a public handing-over ceremony at the Bishop's Cross to-day, Saturday, September 30 ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1104 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

ON RIVER, ROAD AND RAIL: News from Britain and America

... THE SCAFFOLDING COLLAPSE IN NORTH LONDON One man was killed and eight were in jured, two of them seriously, when scaffolding and pieces of masonry fell from the front of houses in Oakley Square, St. Pancras. Some of the workmen on Che scaffold ing fell ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 220 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

PRINCE ALBERT TO HERBERT MORRISON: THE NEW AUDITORIUM RAPIDLY TAKES SHAPE AT THE OLD VIC: Throughout 1950 work ..

... helped to age the Prince, we need not here recall instances. The great idea evoked the bitterest rage, and opposi tion enough to kill any project sponsored by a man less obstinate, fearless and determined than Albert. And it succeeded beyond his dreams, and ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1478 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

A FOREIGN NEWS SURVEY: TROUBLE IN EGYPT'S CITIES; THE BATTLE OF THE SECTORS IN BERLIN; AN ARMED SHEPHERD OF NEW ..

... headlined news for the edificatioa of Berliners living in the Eastern Sector behind the Iron Curtain. In the back' ground scaffolding is being erected Is the rival news board with which the Russians are countering Western propa ganda. It is so placed that ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1169 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

RIOT, MUTINY, AND THEFT: In France and North and South America Acts of Lawlessness Claim Public Attention

... From this gaol on Anchieta Island nearly 300 heavily-armed convicts fought their way to freedom in a battle in which they killed a total of seventeen guards and civilian employees. Twenty-two convicts were recaptured in the battle. The rest made for the ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 655 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

CEASE FIRE IN KOREA

... war that was fought over such a small area, the casualty I figures are high without precedent. Nearly 350,000 men have been killed or wounded in J the United Nations cause. Of these, 700 dead and 2,400 wounded were British 24,000 dead and 100,000 wounded ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 772 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter: AN AMERICAN'S GIFT TO THE TOWER OF LONDON

... perhaps before he goes to Lugano in mid-October. The general view seems to be that the changes are good, provided Lord Woolton kills the Materials Ministry quickly and cleanly, and strengthen the Cabinet. But the lightening of Mr. Eden's load is the big change ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2113 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

THE AMERICAN WAR CEMETERY AT MADDINGLEY: Work in Progress on the Memorials to the Killed and Missing of the U.S ..

... The American War Cemetery at Maddingley Work in Progress on the Memorials to the Killed and Missing of the U.S. Services Who Operated From Bases in Britain LOOKING TOWARDS THE MAIN FLAGSTAFF FROM THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHAPEL AT THE AMERICAN WAR GRAVES CEMETERY ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 250 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

SIR GORDON WINS THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE

... on the estate at the time, there were only a few minor casualties. The pilot of the aircraft, Flight-Lieut. G. W. Hill, was killed. Immediately after the accident, the Ipswich housing authorities made arrangements for two families whose homes had been ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1165 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Carriages From The Royal Mews

... first Master was George Boleyne, Viscount Rochester, brother of Anne Boleyne. Like his sister, he eventually died on the scaffold. Royal interest in hunting was maintained in varying degree through the ages, and the Buckhounds even survived the austere ...