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A look back at two visits to Windsor Coach Park I made in late July and early August 2025. The Royal Motorways Volvo 9700 is a particular favourite of mine (it looks so smart!); the new Richmonds livery is a bit of a slow-burner I'm afraid (their previous livery was/is an absolute classic); the Neoplan Cityliner (albeit French-registered) looks superb; the Evans Evans red is gorgeous; and it's always good to see something a little bit vintage such as the Greys decker. What's that? Keep taking the tablets?
A look back at two visits to Windsor Coach Park I made in late July and early August 2025. The Royal Motorways Volvo 9700 is a particular favourite of mine (it looks so smart!); the new Richmonds livery is a bit of a slow-burner I'm afraid (their previous livery was/is an absolute classic); the Neoplan Cityliner (albeit French-registered) looks superb; the Evans Evans red is gorgeous; and it's always good to see something a little bit vintage such as the Greys decker. What's that? Keep taking the tablets?
1883 Victorian Grand Hotel in Melbourne.
The Hotel Windsor is Australia’s most loved and renowned grand hotel, pre-dating The Savoy in London, The Plaza and The Waldorf Astoria in New York, The Ritz in Paris, and Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Established in 1883, it combines the classic beauty and architecture of the Victorian age with the graciousness of that bygone era.
Source photo for DUC 1101
So, armed with a compact camera, an empty memory card, a new set of batteries and a window seat on the Airbus A320, here is my day yesterday, fro the wait at the check-in desk to the gate, to the view out of the window of Sweden and then the Home Counties and then a trip on what, mile for mile, must be the most expensive railway line in Britain, The Heathrow Express: £34 for two 15 minute trips.
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Windsor Racecourse, also known as Royal Windsor Racecourse, is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Windsor, Berkshire, England. It is one of only two figure-of-eight courses in the United Kingdom, the other being at Fontwell Park. It abandoned National Hunt jump racing in December 1998, switching entirely to Flat racing. However, the course has occasionally held National Hunt meetings since, such as when it took over some of nearby Ascot's jump meetings during its refurbishment in the mid-2000s.
Windsor Racecourse is located on the banks of the River Thames and occupies a large island between the main channel of the River and the Clewer Mill Stream backwater.
The local area has links to horse racing that date back to the time of Henry VIII, but the first race meeting at Royal Windsor did not take place until 1866.
William the Conqueror chose the site of Windsor Castle at 'New Windsor' - taking the name from the 'Old Windsor' which was used by the Saxon Kings.
Ariound 1160 Henry II starting building a stone curtain wall around the castle. The first stone Round Tower of Windsor Castle was built inside the reinforced Shell walls on the original mound. The wooden outer walls of the small royal private apartment was replaced by hard Heath Stone which was quarried 10 miles south of Windsor.
An interesting fact barely comes out ,in the more romantic versions, of this part of history. Richard the Lionhearted (as he was known) seems to always come out the hero and wronged party, while Prince John ends up always the villain.
By rights of succession Richard was indeed next in line and the rightul heir. It seems however that John had become Henry's favourite son and Richard had begun to fear he was being written out of the king's inheritance. The final thorn in Henry's side would be an alliance between his eldest surviving son, Richard, and his greatest rival, King Philip II of France, his bitter enemy.
In summer 1189, Richard and Philip of France invaded Henry's heartland of power and Henry was soundly defeated.
Weak, ill, and deserted by all but an illegitimate son, Geoffrey, Henry II died at Chinon on 6 July 1189. Chroniclers record him saying "My other sons are the real bastards. This is the one who's proved himself legitimate". The victorious Prince Richard later paid his respects to Henry's corpse as it travelled to Fontevraud Abbey, upon which, according to Roger of Wendover, 'blood flowed from the nostrils of the deceased, as if...indignant at the presence of the one who was believed to have caused his death".
Henry II's eldest surviving son was crowned "by the grace of God, King Richard I of England" at Westminster on 1 September 1189 upon his father's death. and in 1190 Richard the Lionheart embarked on the Third Crusade leaving Windsor in the care of the Bishop of Durham.
Under the circumstances did not take long for Prince John to start ploting the overthrow of his brother King Richard. and Windsor Castle in 1193 comes under attack in what is known as the "1st Siege".
The Baron knights loyal to John besieged the castle, led by William Marshal. It was eventually surrendered into the hands of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Queen Mother.
Windsor Castle
Corinthian Colums at Windsor ruins with intricately detailed capitals of iron. See the pictures of my children standing in front of them to get a sence of their enormous size and height.
Windsor was built in 1860 and was the biggest plantation home ever built in Mississippi. Sadly this architectural masterpiece of the "Old South" burned down in 1890. What you see in these pictures is all that is left. In this set, there are some artist renderings of what the home looked like in it's original splendor. These were drawn from the only drawing of windsor by someone from the Union army during their occupation of Windsor during the Civil War.