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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1927.
FLATFORD MILL
£8,000,000 WORK ON RAILWAY.
HORSES CARNIVAL.
A GIFT TO THE NATION.
Lovers of the art of John Con atable will rejoice to hear says the Times, that, thanks to the gener ous action of Mr. T. R. Fatkington,
BIG SOUTHERN COMPANY'S PLANS.
FESTIVAL AT A REST HOME.
Boxes of curcote, apples, sugar, and other dainties loved by horses The Southern Railway in an the Home
and donkeys were distributed at of Ipswich, Flatford Mill and Winancing a number of schemes for Westerost
of Rost for Horace, ly Lott's Cottage at East Bergholt, which authority has been obtained Day Feast, an ovent of the home development and improvement for It was the thirty-first New Year's Farm, Cricklewood. in Suffolk, are to be presented tor will be asked In the near future, instituted nearly forty years ago memory of the great East Augworks already in hand, will involve war years, it has been regularly a tribute to the state that those, together with the by the late Mrs. Gore. Save the lian painter,
It will be remembered that or than £8,000,000.
an estimated expenditure of more maintained. December 6, 1924, Mr. H. P. Halu Friswell, wrote to The Times from taken in hand in 1927 are the Among the works which will be Flatford calling attention to a pro-schemes for the extension
the nation 08
of
keys are the present guests, and home. Eighty horses and five don- i There are no empty stalls in the pound made by Sir Arthur Church Southampton docks at a cost of motor-car's advent and advance man, M.P to give a group of build- £3,000,000. and for the construc- have not affected the call on the according to the secretary the ings at Flatford, including Willy tion of a loop at Minster Junction services of the home. Its work Lott's house, Abram Constable's at an estimated cost of £36,500, has a house, and Flatford Mill, with Thia loop, with the one recently skilled treatment for the animals. about mine. acres of land. on the
triplo, aspect. Rest and banks of the Stour above and be-
provided between Broadstairs of poor people are provided at a low Flatford Lock, to the Roy-1
and Ramsgate, Will enable nominal or no charge, according Academy of Arts or any publie from Margate and Ramsgate to from cruel owners are given sane-
through truins to be body on condition that they agreed Dover, Folkestone, and Ashford tuary there; and old favourites run to circumstances; animals rescued to put them into repair and to without reversal of locomotives. find at Westeroft a place to spond maintain them. He accordingly suggested that a school of land for 1927 are the following
Among the new works planned the rest of their days as honoured scapa study should be established which would serve
the double
'pensioners. purpose of enabling students to learn their art in the most suitable surroundings and of preserving a group of buildings of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
The project attracted a good deal of support, and a scheme for the school of landscape study was on May 7, 1925, laid before on in- formal conference at the Arts Club. Sir David Murray, R.A., who presided over that gathering, expressed his emphatic opinion that nowhere in the country could be found a spot offering so many advantages for the study of land- scape as the property at Flatford. A similar view was taken in letters which appeared in our columns, where It was pointed out that the most modern in landscape painting had been strongly influenced by work done in the valley of the Stour.
Widening of the line between low the running of through elec-R. J. Day, of the Machine Gun Kent House and Beckenham to al-ed a good deal of attention. Lieut. "Roger," the war horse, attract- tric services between Beckenham Cavalry, who picked up "Roger" and Victoria via the Crystal on the Somme, said. "We got him Palace. engines, 20 passengers tank en- with a lot of other riderless horses. Ten express engines, 5 goods horses. He came galloping over at Thiens, when we badly wanted.
gines, 8 shunting engines, 70 bogiche bore me across the Hindenburg corridor carriages, 1,400 12-ton line, and when the war was over I open goods wagons, and 100 cattle bought wagons, to cost about £700,000,
him at Tattersall's. "Roger" was trained for polo, and was good for riding or carriage work, but now he has navicular disease of the near fore hoof, and I think he has earned his rent here for the remainder of his life."
Com-
Dover Changes. Certain development and im- provement works on the pany's lines, already in hand, in- clude the electrification of the suburban lines in the Central sec-:
The "old favourites" number on now operated by steam, at d
about forty. "Beos," a black: cont of £3,750,000, contructions mare, is the oldest of them, prob- at Dover to deal with Continental ably thirty years of age, and with trafle at an estimated cost of a record of ten years in the institu- $421,000, the provision of a new tion. Another notable pensioner station at Wimbledon to cost is "Augusta," granddaughter of £250,000, and the construction of "Hermit," the Derby winner of For the scheme to go forward, a loop connecting the old London, 1867, and her owner, Mr. L. Mar- however, a subscription of £14,000 Chatham, and Dover line from zetti, was present at the fenst. er $15,000 was necessary. Unfo:- Victoria with the old South-East- tunately, for reasons which necdern fine from Charing Cross, bet- not be gone into, the project fell Ween Stroud and Chatham, to en- through. It is now possible to an-able heavier engines to be employ- nounce that Mr. Parkington hased on the express-services between stepped in and has acquired the Loudon, Margate, and Ramsgate. whole of the property in order that The last-named improvement will it may be preserved for the nation. cost approximately £81,000. He wishes it to be put to some use-
It is hoped to placed every con- ful artistic purpose.
This is re-tract with British firms, and the ceiving consideration. He has al money to be spent will provide ready decided to restore Willy employment for a large number Lott's cottage and to ensure that of workmen, skilled and unskilled. the spacious studio and large for a considerable time. rooms at the Mill shall be open
and placed at the free use of art-
VARDON PLAYING GOLF
IN SPECTACLES.
ists on all occasions, and in par-BAD PUTTING CURED. ticular during wet and inclement weather. Adequate safeguards are to be provided in order that the property shall continue to be No used and no act of vandalism perpetrated after Mr. Parkington's death. It was Mr. Parkington
A pair of spectacles, which he who a few weeks ago presented bought recently, may give Harry the Oak Hill estate at Ipswich to Vardor-six times winner of the the Institute of Journalists for a Преп Golf Championship-3-
more golfing honours. Already As yet Mr. Parkington has come the spectacles have proved of to no decision whether the origin- great benefit to Vardon, and in al idea of a school of landscape cidentally have shown how Im- painting at Flatford shall be pro- portant eyesight is to the golfer. Fceeded with. If the authorities Despite his 56 years Varden is atit of the Royal Academy should de- the great master of the driver and aire such a school no opposition the brassie, and at the shots to the would be raised to its being built green with the iron clubs ho re- on the property, and Mr. Parking-mains, as always, the envy of hie brother professionals. But his
convalescent home.
ton is willing to consider any prae- putting for years has been the de- tical suggestions that may be made to further the progress of landscape painting in this country.
THE SPEAKER'S COACH.
200-YEARS-OLD VEHICLE.
pair of himself and his friends. The spectacles have changed all that, and in a friendly match over his own course at Totteridge he went round in 66. Bogey for the course is 74.
Vardon's putting then was re- miniscent of his palmy days. In the first nine holes, which he did in 31 strokes, he required only 12 putts. One was taken on the first green, two on the second one on the third, one on the fourth, two on the fifth, one on the sixth. two on the seventh, and one on This coach, which is said to dato each of the eighth and ninth from 1700, weighs two and three-greens. quarter tons, and is only used on
The magnificent state coach of the Speaker of the House of Com- mons has just undergone a perio- I'dical "spring-cleaning."
Only 29 Putta.
the most auspicious occasions. I Coming home, be had one putt has remained in ita coachhouse off on the thirteenth, which he holed the Chancellor's Court, Westmins in two, and two putte dn, the other ter, since it was last used, at the felght greens gave him a total of Coronation of King George 1529 strokes with the putter for the years ago.
elghteen holés.
The figures of this fine round were:
Out: 344438483-81. Home: 364245444-35- total 66.
Said to have been designed by Dutch artist, and to have beon given to the Speaker by Queen Anne, it is upholstered in plush and decorated with gold. Upon. the panels are beautiful pictures It is interesting to recall that as well as the crests of the J. H. Taylor was refused for the Speakers who have used it on State Army on account of defective eye- ocensiona.
sight and that James Braid won a Despite its being used so, rarely, championship playing in smoked the coach is kept in perfect trim.goggles at Muirfield, When in the coachhouse It is swathed in sheets to keep the dust wonderful eyesight of Bobby Jones off and every month it is taken out and Walter Hagen and how their and carefully cleaned. Kept also eagle eyes pick out the line of the in the coachhouse is the stale pust, gauging all the slopes and harness for the horses.
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