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AND MR. SHEP ARD HELPD

... legend. They arc people you have always known about since you knew about anything, and coming across them in the fur, so to speak, in an Important Museum is accompanied by the r ather unnerving feeling that they were young in the '2os and Because they are ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1142 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

RABY CASTLE, CO. DURHAM-111

... the Kinge! Surely then they should never have torn out the heart-strings of that worthie Castle whilest I had lived. Here speaks a 17th-century preservationist. His Relacion of Abuses, published in The Camden Miscellany of 1854, is an the absorbing ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1255 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN THE 13th CENTURY

... This was no frivolous promise, either, for in 1948 I remember the case of a Humber bicycle, bought in 1905, u ed Strictly speaking this duty was performed by the groom of the chambers, where one was kept, but, in the absence of that domestic dignitary ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5211 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

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... Philip Mercier's conversation (Fig. 5) making music with his sisters in the gardens at Kew they were of course hardly on speaking terms. \'Vithin a year or two complete estrangement came when Queen Caroline was ill. George II issued commands to keep the ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138359 | Page: 199 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE ANNUAL, 1970 unadulterated Norman or Gothic would have clone. It speaks of distant horizons and ..

... COUNTRY LIFE ANNUAL, 1970 unadulterated Norman or Gothic would have clone. It speaks of distant horizons and wild seas; of bygone whaling expeditions and of fond home-comings to this haven - under - the - hill where Caeclmon had sung his Song of Creation ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1241 | Page: 149 | Tags: none

CLAY SOILS: A CRISIS AHEAD?

... of the whole. Finally the a uthor reverts to the marvellous plants within the hothouses, and here also the spirit of Horta speaks. For one of the favourite and most characteristic features of his houses (and the one of which his clients were apparently ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 32847 | Page: 259 | Tags: none

SIR,-In your issue of Tovember 27, Dickins, in his article,

... about 12 ft. In his excitement Ferdinand fl ew all of 6 ft., about 1 ft. above the water, before hitting the deck, so to speak. This went on several times until he became exhausted. I will report in due course whether he has got really airborne It is ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1386 | Page: 46 | Tags: none

RING 01-836 3319

... MISS SCLA'J'E'R. BOOTH 5. Dictate your advertisement 69, Glebe Place, S. W .3. FLAxman 7987. slowly and clearly. If you stop speaking for more than ten seconds, the machine will acknowledge your message and then close down. However, any sound or word said ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2563 | Page: 70 | Tags: none

W AGNER'S HOME ON LAKE LUCERNE

... entry in the church's marriage register. The witnesses were the singer Malwida von Meysenbug and H ans Richter. But before I speak of any of the other contents of the museum I must say something about the house itself. It is on a splendid raised site overlooking ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3918 | Page: 234 | Tags: none

away by the marvels of the metallic frame. Wherever some new conquest of civilisation or modern luxury presents ..

... of the whole. Finally the a uthor reverts to the marvellous plants within the hothouses, and here also the spirit of Horta speaks. For one of the favourite and most characteristic features of his houses (and the one of which his clients were apparently ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1301 | Page: 243 | Tags: none

4.-RECEIVING PRINCES AT BOMBAY. The greatest impression was made by the little Gaekwar of Baroda, aged 12 and ..

... audience chamber at Parell the Prince received the maharajas and other chiefs of that part of India. It was not, strictly speaking, a Durbar, which only the Sovereign or Viceroy could hold. But as he sat on a silver t hrone fl anked by his suite in COUNTRY ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 918 | Page: 210 | Tags: none

A VANISHED THEATRICAL MASTERPIECE

... Covent Garden was opened. Such speed was all the more surprising in that architect and builder seem scarcely to have been on speaking terms. F arington noted spitefully that the builder had shown only a desire to gratify his vanity and get as much as he ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: 212 | Tags: none