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The old White Hart in the Corn Market, Oxford, has disappeared for ever, to be replaced by a new hotel named ..

... disappeared for ever, to be reolaced bv a new hotel named after its owner, Mr. Buol. The old White Hart in the Corn Market, Oxford, has disappeared for ever, to be replaced by a new hotel named after its owner, Mr. Buol. Although the old inn dated only ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1029 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA'S ZEBRA: And Her Favourite Donkey

... as Burchell's. The Grevy zebra was so named after the French President, to whom King Menelik presented a specimen in 1882. It Is found in the Shoa highlands of North-east Africa, whereas Burchell's zebra (named after the famous naturalist) is found 1b South ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 151 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

LORD KITCHENER'S VISIT TO THE NORTHERN MARCHES OF INDIA

... maintaining the reputation of the Sikhs for un flinching courage on the field of battle INTERIOR OF THE GATE, FORT LOCKHART Named after the late Sir William Lockhar GATE OF FORT LOCKHART AND THE SNOWCLAD COUNTRY ON WHICH IT OPENS CRAG PIQUET THE SOUTH-WEST ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1903
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 387 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... weigh nine tons. It is believed that no skeleton of a whale in any part of the world equals in length this one, which is named after a place called Okarito, on the West Coast of the Middle Island of New Zealand, where it was stranded. The cost of the skeleton ...

Views of Picturesque Repton

... splendid reputation, and now houses 342 boys Priory School, Repton Repton School was once known as Repton Priory School, named after the building in our picture. Its creeper-clad walls distinctly suggest an atmosphere of dignified scholarship Photos Winter ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 77 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

THE IRON WALLS OL THE BRITISH EMPIRE: The Building of H.M.S. Duncan

... built by the Thames Ironworks at Blackball. It is l^WO tons and ha^an indicated horse-power of 18,000. It is, of course, named after the famous Admiral Duncan (1731-1804), who routed the Dutch fleet at Camperdown o October 11, 1797, and ten days later he ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 82 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

WILL SHE BE QUEEN OF SPAIN?-- PRINCESS ENA OF BATTENBERG

... Princess, who will celebrate her birthday on October 24 (she was horn in 1887), should be the only member of our Royal Family named after a Spaniard, namely, the Empress Eugdnie,* for her full name is Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Hughes Mull ins ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1905
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: 1 | Tags: Photographs 

RACING AT KEMPTON PARK

... RACING AT KEMPTON PARK The start for the Greenwood Handicap This race, which was named after that well-known sporting journalist, the late Chas. Greenwood (Hotspur of the Dailv Telegraph), was won by Pollion (W. Lane up), an 8 to i chance. Pollion's ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: 49 | Tags: Photographs