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IAF officer visiting Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.
Photo by: Carmel Horowitz.
קצין חיל האוויר מבקר במוזיאון השואה יד ושם.
צילום: כרמל הורוביץ.
No. 6 - 6:- Behind the High Street, Redbourn, Hertfordshire visiting the Common.
Cumberland House
1643 or 1645 is said to have been found on a chimney brick. It was a hunting lodge for the Duke of Cumberland with the pack of hounds kept on Dunstable Downs.
This particular Duke of Cumberland was probably:-
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682), soldier and inventor, was a younger son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine. He was born in Prague. His mother, Elizabeth of Bohemia, sometimes known as the "Winter Queen", was a sister of King Charles I of England, and consequently Rupert gave his allegiance to Charles when the English Civil War broke out, as did his sister, Prince Maurice.
Rupert was a brilliant cavalry officer, having gained some experience in the Thirty Years War. In 1642, King Charles appointed him to lead the Royalist cavalry, and their early successes are largely attributable to Rupert. His dashing reputation earned him the nickname of the "Mad Cavalier". He is reputed to have taken a large dog, "Boy", into battle with him on several occasions.
As Parliament's army gained the ascendant, Rupert's skills were not enough to save the Royalists, and when, in 1645, he surrendered Bristol, his uncle rejected him, forgetful of his earlier sterling service. Rupert was court-martialled at his own request and cleared of any blame, but he never enjoyed the king's favour as he had previously done, and in 1646 he left England.
By 1648 Rupert was fighting with the French against Oliver Cromwell's England. However, following a naval defeat by Admiral Robert Blake, he took refuge in the West Indies, where he followed the life of a buccaneer, preying on English shipping. Following the Restoration of the monarchy, he returned to the service of England. After his retirement from the military in around 1670, he engaged in scientific research, and has sometimes been credited with the invention of the mezzotint, as well as a form of gunpowder and an alloy named "Prince's metal" in his honour.
He directed the Hudson's Bay Company, which traded furs in Canada, and its immense trading monopoly was named Rupert's Land for him. Prince Rupert, British Columbia is likewise named for him.
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Cumberland House passed through a number of owners being bought by Mr R Cecil Peake in 1890, he installed a generator making Cumberland House the first in the village with electric lighting. He was a JP at St Albans for 37 Years and died in 1933. Gertrude Peake Place on the High Street is named after one of his daughters.
From Dodie Allman ( nee Trask, granddaughter of Robert Cecil Peake)
I wonder if you know, that when my grandfather bought Cumberland House in 1890, he also bought "the Heath", up on the corner of the Common, for his three unmarried sisters to live in. Also a lot of acreage on Crouch Hall Lane,. When Cumberland was sold to Lady Wise, in the thirties, my Aunts, Gertrude and Anna Peake moved into the Heath. After WW11, they sold the Heath ,keeping enough property to build "Heybrigge"-beside it. My nephew Cecil. V. Peake bought that house,then sold it and it was razed to build four town houses. My mother Mabel Peake was born in Cumberland House in 1894. I have such fond memories of the most wonderful Christmas's, with twenty people staying in the house. I could go on and on, I know every nook and cranny of that house. One time while visitng England, my husband and I knocked on the door of the Electricity Board, and I asked if I could show my husband. they were very reluctant, I think they thought we were Russian spys, this was probably 19 87ish, anyway, we finally were allowed all around the old part.
My father Basil F Trask built " Longcroft' on Crouch Hall Lane.
Now at age 82, (I have lived here 59 years in April) I was so interested to read about Redbourn. I have a family picture taken in Cumberland house garden on my bedroom wall.
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A more recent owner was the Central Electricity Generating Board and later National Grid. It was used as an electricity supply control centre until its recent closure. The old car park is now used for housing (Cumberland Mews - now named Miller Close) and the surgery for the Health Centre Practice (Hawke's Drive). The back part of the Cumberland House Garden has become the Village Garden - now named Cumberland Garden, which provides a link from Hawke's Drive to the High Street.
The old car park entrance has been used for filming, the most recent being for an exterior prison scene for Judge John Deed, on what is now the entrance to Miller Close.
From the Parish Council Minutes Nov 06: - A Company called “Somethin’ Else” is filming in Cumberland House and has sought permission to also film on the Common.
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One of the first Diesel Days on the Severn Valley Railway took place on a hazy 7th May 1988. Visiting locos included 20170, 31413, 37427, D345, 55015, and Sprinter 156404, but the star of the show was 59001 which operated its first passenger workings over the line.
D335 arrived from Tyseley on the Friday hauled by 20170, and returned on the Sunday via Bescot. I don’t think it was used that weekend, just parked on display at Bewdley.
]uring a visit to the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) headquarters in Jeddah, where she explored channels of cooperation between Jordan and the bank mainly in development projects
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia / April 26, 2008
خلال زيارتها لمقر البنك الإسلامي للتنمية في جدة لبحث سبل تعزيز التعاون بين الأردن والبنك في مجالات التنمية وتمكين المجتمعات والحد من الفقر وتوفير فرص العمل
جدة، المملكه العربيه السعوديه / 26 نيسان 2008
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At the memorial at the site of the Battle of Hornshole, 1514. On the right is Elliot tartan. On the left Teviotdale tartan which weaves the distinctive blue and chocolate Elliot colours with the green and white of Hawick Rugby Club and the darker blue and yellow of the Hexham Standard which was captured by the lads of Hawick near this spot in 1514.
Visiting Baghdad We visited the Al Faw Palace. This Palace was one of 99 built by Sadam Husein. The architechture was amazing but the colors a little odd. The palace was built as a resort for the upper echelon of Saddam's regime. Saddam spent less than 7 days here himself.
Thanks to New Invention Junior School in Willenhall for such a warm welcome. (5th December, 2019)
Labour will ‘poverty-proof’ schools, introducing free school meals for all primary school children, encouraging breakfast clubs, and tackling the cost of school uniforms.
This was my first time visiting the observation deck at the Freedom Tower, which just opened earlier this year. The views from up here are really good; you can get great pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge and you can see the Statue of Liberty in the distance.
This view is looking south and southwest. That is the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor and all the land to the right is the beautiful state of New Jersey. The land directly to the right is Jersey City and the land straight beyond the statue would be Bayonne. I live in the land on the far left of the picture....and go about 20 miles beyond that.
The foot trail through the snow ends at the first rock climbing pitch for the ascent of the Matterhorn.
This is as far as we got.
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I was visiting the Downey Historical Society and found this is an old telephone book. Thanks to the gang over there especially Bob who always takes the time to reminisce about South Downey where we both grew up.I'm sure many of you will remember this place. It was right across from where Denny's is.
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Pictures from driving through California in a convertible red Mustang: Firstly Sonoma to various vineyards - BR Cohn and Chateau St Jean. Then down Highway 1 to Big Sur and Julia Pfeiffer Burns National Park.
No. 1 - 5:- Exploring Churchend, Redbourn.
Church End - Considered to be the original site of the village.
So, one may assume that in Tudor times the village 'moved'; that is to the attraction of serving the travellers along Watling Street. As we have seen before there were numerous hostelries of all types serving a public with liquor and other refreshments and there was the best place to earn ones money! So, that was where you built your house, and you leave the elderly, and the children behind, to tend the fields in this agricultural area.
Looking down the street towards the Parish Church, whose tower can just be seen amidst the trees at the far end. To see the church look at my Photostream for the 17th August.
On the extreme left here is the Workhouse, as was, a row of cottages, as is, see Photostream of 16.08.09 no. 5 - 5.
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