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Photos taken after the final performance - for now - of The Duke In The Cupboard. Written by Susan Wear and directed by Katy Weir, the world premiere was held at the Customs House in South Shields on October 7 2015. With thanks to Susan, Katy and the cast: Graham Overton, Zoe Lambert, Stephen Gregory, Adam Donaldson, Scott Ellis and Tom Machell. Not forgetting 'newscaster' Jeff Brown and Susan's mother Margaret Wear who painted the copy of the Goya portrait used in the production.
A series of photos taken in the autumn of 1986 at Loughborough of no 71000 Duke of Gloucester.
This was after the restoration of the loco from scrapyard condition whilst being steamed to haul its first passenger train since withdrawal from BR, a special for those who had contributed to the loco's restoration. As I was a student in the area I bunked off with one of the college's Praktica 35mm SLRs and some Ilford 400.........
The loco is towed away from the shed area while still 'brewing up' to the water column.
These were taken of DUKE , not lang before he lost his first tusk ...
He has since lost both !
Near Crocodile Bridge , KNP
The gothic style nave of Duke Chapel measures 291 feet high and 63 feet wide. The walls, vaults, and transepts are constructed using interlocking tiles illsborough Bluestone. Over one-million pices of glass were used to construct the 77 stained glass windows.
It's free to go.
But go before it closes!
On May 25th, 2008, Doris Duke's indoor gardens will be closed and her collections will be dismantled by her own Foundation.
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Memorial to HRH Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900) and HRH Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884) By HRH Princess Louise (1848-1939).
Erected by a sorrowing sister to the memory of her two beloved brothers Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg and Leopold, Duke of Albany.
Alfred was married on 23rd January 1874 in St. Petersburg to Marie, only surviving daughter of Alexander ll of Russia and his wife, Marie of Hesse Damstadt. Thls was the only wedding ceremony of one of her children that Queen Victoria did not attend, and she did not meet the bride until a couple of months after the marriage. Marie was the only Romanov to marry into the British Royal Family.
Leopold suffered from haemophilia and went to the south of France on doctor's orders in February, 1884. He died a month later of a cerebral haemorrhage.
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30th July 1900
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, died of throat cancer at the age of 55 at Schloss Rosenau in Coburg, Germany.
On 23rd August 1893, Alfred’s uncle Ernst died, and he became the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He reluctantly had to give up his successful career in the Royal Navy - he was Admiral of the Fleet - to become Duke. He was able to retain his London home, Clarence House (now the London home of the Prince of Wales).
He is buried in the ducal family’s mausoleum in Coburg Cemetery.
(Courtesy of unofficialroyaty with addition)
He was the third of Queen Victoria's children to die in her lifetime. A fourth, her eldest daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, Dowager Empress of Prussia died six months after her mother.
"In the case of her youngest son Prince Leopold there was an element of tragedy. He had inherited the disease known as haemophilia or bleeding, so that the slightest little accident, slip or bruise prostrated him for some time. He was generally intelligent but had no particular talents. The Queen’s attitude towards him was one of apparent solicitude in his constant ever recurring illnesses, combined with thwarting and interfering with him when he was well. In 1877 when there was special anxiety about his health she was sympathetic so long as it gave her an excuse for remaining at Balmoral. But when the delay she considered had been long enough then she said: “He must be well enough to travel.” The question continually cropped up as to what he should do. The Queen wrote to her Private Secretary from Osborne, February 21, 1877 :
“Prince Leopold has been working very steadily. The Queen will send boxes down & Gen.Ponsonby will select what is of interest for Leopold to read & make abstracts of. He is getting much quicker at it.”
He took an intelligent interest in foreign affairs but was unfortunate and indeed became mischievous in some of his interferences in politics. So when the Queen told Ponsonby to give him work, he really did not know what to do because the Prince had no powers of concentration or of mastering any subject. But when Leopold wanted to do something himself he was often prevented. The Queen stopped him from being a captain of Volunteers in 1872 although the Prince of Wales was in favour of it. When in 1875 he agreed to receive the Freedom of the City, she wrote at once to the Lord Mayor to cancel the invitation. In 1883 the question arose as to whether Prince Leopold’s desire to go to Canada should be acceded to. Lord Granville wrote expressing doubt but asking what the Queen’s view was. Ponsonby telegraphed back : “ At first surprised and dead against it somewhat more softened now but by no means advocating it and stands entirely aloof”. Even in his private affairs, when the Prince wanted to shoot or to go about socially and have some fun, the Queen’s supervision stopped it. Sir Thomas Biddulph’s assistance was enlisted to lecture him. To this Sir Thomas very much objected. In June 1878 Ponsonby writes :
“It is awkward talking to Leopold in the sense the Queen wishes as I do not in the least agree with her. She has laid down absolute rules for what he is to do, coming such a day and going such a day never to dine out or to go to a club - to come to Osborne in July and leave it the day the - Regatta begins and all in that strain. I cannot support such a system and for one thing know it is useless to try it on. Will the Queen never find out that she will have ten times more influence on her children by treating them with kindness and not trying to rule them like a despot?”
That Leopold chafed under this treatment is not to be wondered at. He must have cursed the illness which tied him by a chain to his mother. In 1882 as Duke of Albany he married Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont, a sister of the Queen of Holland. She is the single instance quoted in the letters of a member of the family who refused to write to the Queen when there was any trouble, refused to send messages through an intermediary and insisted on confronting her face to face In one quoted instance the interview must have been lively as after it the Duchess of Albany did not appear at the Queen’s table but dined alone with her husband. When the Duke of Albany died in 1884 there was a great outpouring of grief and lamentation, in which can be detected the note of resentment at having another of her children taken from her. "
From: Henry Ponsonby His Life From His Letters - Arthur Ponsonby [1943]
The Prince George County police shortly after extinguishing the Jon Scheyer jersey burning on a tree.
Duke Farms was the vision of James Buchanan Duke, one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs at the turn of the 20th century. J.B. Duke, who endowed Duke University and founded Duke Power and the American Tobacco Company, began buying land in central New Jersey in 1893 and assembled more than 37 parcels of farmland, which now comprise one of New Jersey’s largest remaining privately owned open spaces.
Duke was a pit pony who worked at Kiveton Park Colliery probably in the 1940s through to the 1960s. A lot of people in Kiveton still remember him, and the other pit ponies, fondly. They worked underground, alongside the men and boys for 51 weeks of the year. They had one week off when the pit had its summer shutdown and they saw sunshine and ran around in the fields and were spoiled rotten by all the local children.
This artwork was unveiled in April and stands on, what was once the pit tip in Kiveton Community Woodland, in front of our standing stones . It's made of intentionally rusted steel and is engraved with the following quotes from local people about their memories of Duke and the other pit ponies.
"I remember the softness of their muzzles when we fed them bread in the summer holidays."
"Keith used to drive him and was able to say something that made him run off out of the mine to Harthill. He was then sent to collect it, resulting in a nice walk!"
"We were riding back in the tub when the rein broke. We were scared stiff but still laughed all the way. Bravado!"
I found it quite moving to be honest. There are memorials all over the park to the miners and I think it's sweet and fitting that the animals that worked there are now remembered too. I'm very proud of my old community :)