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MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1953.

SHEAFFER'S

Skrip

Silkworm Castle Draws The Crowds

Patricia Doodney, four-year-old daughter of an estate worker, holds one of the angora' rabbits whose fur is mixed with silk to make a new knitting yarn.

The early Tudor gatehouse of Lullingstone Castle at Eynsford, Kent.

Mes. Tein Castle (left) and Miss Doris Koight' look at the reels for faults and breaks belore -

the silk is made into banks

But The Landlady' Lives In A Cottage

"I

FEEL just like a seaside landlady,"

was

said Zoe, Lady Hart Dyke. She stream watching visitors through the door of her home, Lulling- stone Castle, near Eynsford, Kent, from her first-floor office window.

From that same window'more than 200 years ago an ancestor, Anne Hart, on the eve of her' wedding to Sir Thomas Dyke, slipped to the ground on a twisted sheet and eloped with her sailor lover, John Bluett. Nine years later, as a widow, she married Sir Thomas after all, and the family took the name Hart Dyke. Lullingstone, now famous as the only silk farm in England, is one of the most popular Stately Homes. Every summer thousands of visitors pay 2s. 6d. (children 2.) to look over the place.

Fifteen-year-old Junior clerk Lorna Manektelow admires the dolf left at Lullingstone by Queen Anne nearly 300 years ago.

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

again. Your father refuses to take us to the ntil wo've finished the bass he put in the fractor

"Even so, the money earned only just pays our running ex- penses-rates, taxes and wages," sald Lady Hart Dyke.

A description of one of the Stately Homes of England - Lulling- stone Castle, Eynsford, Kent.

By DENISE RICHARDS

low treads so that the Queen, who was lame and fat, could walk up and down with dignity and ease.

Another time, Percival Hart had an entire wing pulled down and rebuilt in a more fashion-

able manner to be worthy of the Queen,

The £1,100 doll

In the hall, once the Tutor courtyard, there is a doll left at

The history of Lullingstone has been overshadowed by the since bo

farm.

"Like all seaside landladies, I have to take my holidays in the winter because I must here during the season. In the

summer

I start work at. six o'clock every morning."

Lady Hart Dyke, a tall, good- looking

woman in her early Ofties, is outspoken. She works with

determination towards the goal the has been striving for since she started the farm 201

independent of all supplies.

since disappeared.

On the lawn between the house and the gatehouse is the little Norman church of St, Botolph.

and September 30, are given a guide to show them round the form where the silk for the Queen's Coronation rebes was made.

.

Between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 silk worms are produced cach year. They are fed from 25 neres of mulberry trees on the estate and 1,000,000 worms cat

20 tons of leaves in five weeks.

Each worm spins two miles of

JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

THE NEW

JOB

HIS is a time of year |sionate grounds so that he could THIS

care for his near-blind grand=" when

many young

father. humans undergo a change as interesting in its way as that which turns cocoons into butterflies.

BORSTAL, PAISON'

m

E now got work as a, clerk, but he tired of the desk job A short tim: ago these yourig in time and joined the Army were care, eas schoolchildren. again, leaving his grandfather Then the school term ended, a to get on alooo as best he holiday began, which too soon

In between times in also ended.

career Alfred sampled both Next thing the children were Borstal and prison. By last coming home from their first day winter the Army had lost ita at work and, according to tem- enchantment for Alfred. He de- perament, reporting they did not serted and

became a man on much care for or hat the the run, and in due course got Chairman was uneasy airexty the cinema job, lest they usurp his postiem

While the The first day in a job fis, in-

was told, dood, a tingling, exciting afftir. Alfred seemed to doze on the Keyed-up and alert, you expect be in the dock. He was ourly knocking (one lenocie they Magistrate addressed him.

sound to be Oppor-ded into life as the Chlef

story

the house by Queen Anne. It is unbroken silk thread and total dressed in French satin and in output is anything up to 1,000 the folds protected from the 1b, a year. One pound of raw light, the material as bright k is worth about £2. gardener's collage, may give as it was nearly 30 years ago. In the Queen Anne walled the place an atmosphere of de- Many visitors try to buy the doll herb

garden are 30 angora and one American but she also im offered £1,100-but it will never will be increased to 100.

woman rabbits. Next year their number termination. paris an air of galety.

be sold. As

-year-old se Lorna

Experiments by Lady Hart the youngest Facing the house is a Tudor Dyke bave produced a silk and mercielow

stait of 120, Galchouse, one of two built Hur angora knitting yarn which does saya, "Lady Hart Dyke is such ing the reign of Henry VII. It not moult or mat. The first baby fun that I hope I can always was damaged by bombs but will to have a garment immitted with

soon be restored. The other this yarn was Prince Charles, work here."

(and the moat which used to In another part of the grounds surround the castle) has long is Queen Anne's Bathing Pool. She is believed to have bathed there for, in her time, the little ty square, pool was enclosed, by a bold you on your door. You are lint-and-led building. During a long way off the time when

"Were it not that you have The war the pool, which is fed you come to realise that Oppor- to face disciplinary proceedings The rector, the Rev. H. A. L. by five springs, was used as a unity's customary method is to for desertion," said Sir Laurence, Jefferson, lives in a fat in the target for machine-gun fhe bludgeon those she favours into "I should send you to Sessions castle and many people think

In 1949 archacologist Colonel accepting her advances,

for sentence. I want to give. W. Meates discovery! the church is a private one. It G

you a word, of waming, You Roman villa in Lullingstone

are putting yourself in line for sure of an ancient village which Park which took the history of was Altred's first day in his so to prison for six months.“ sibly of an ancient village which

the place, back another 780 years. longer exists.

Last year

job, and though he is, in this will go the "excavations The Queen's pool revealed

respect, a double first at least,

A SHRUG fourth-century having had more jobs than one, domestic chapel which is be he was keen to us to Op-A There

`serailivo to

LFRED went off with a shrug. thing that might

nothing you found portunity.

could tell him about the new On this particular Arst day job he was going to; in it only: Alfred's job was as handyman warders knocked on your door; and commissionaire et a den. Opportunity was not admitted. Hnil og old jobs around tips

of his working time he And that, sald Alfred's ex- pression, was something to be

Few people know that in 1086 the estate was entered in the Domesday Book as Lollystone. In those days it was rented to Godrey de Ros, by Willlam the Conqueror's half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.

no

Д

Wing pulled down years ago-to encourage Com- In has been in the possession monwealth countries to produce of the Hart Dyke-family-since enough silk to make Britain 1801 when it was bought by

foreign their ancestor, John Peche. Queen Anne,

a friend of All visitors 10 Lullingstone lieved to be the earliest Christian Percival Hart (the the Lord of which is open from 11 am to place of worship yet There

is gaioty

the Manor and father of the 6.30 pm. dally between April in this country. "There are signs of silk pro- girl who eloped with John duction starting in Canada, Bluett), was a a constant visitor South Africa, New Zealand and to Lullingstone all her life- the West Indies, so I hope that from 1865 to 1714. one day my ambition will be realised," she said.

Lullingstone's “landłady," who herself lives in the four-roomed

Typhoon Heading For N. Luzon

*

Many parts of the house as it is today are due to Queen Anne. Percival Hart had a new stair- case made with broad and shal-

Radio Hongkong

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customers and calling the odds tbout which coats were avadable, It was while he was doing the culier first part of his job on his drst day, that Opportunity gave what seemed o him a

sed o him a sharp Tup

on his door. Samcane handed him a £5 note, and mad: "Take along to the bank, and get It changed for silver,, will you?" Alfred took the note and hurried away, and decided not to return. Jobs, his experience, told |him, were always easy to find; it

was not so with £5.notes, ..........

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GENERAL HOLIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 31

Philippines,

Quam, kawali,.

are Ave previous con-U.S.A. (San Francisco), 1.20 p.m.,

Bald the police, "alan.A.A.

ha is a deserter from the Army

Notes

were consulted, dates and detalls read out."

From them emerged a picture

Phillppines, N. Borneo, 6 9.

C.P.A.

Formos, G p.m. H.K, Airway: U.B.A., Canada, 6.p.r.

sim: Malaya, Indonesia, Australie.

Japan, 6 p.m., B.C.A.C.

[of Alfred that suggested he was New Zealand, India, Pakiriama X160

more confused, at the age of 23, East, Africa, Great Britain and about what he was aiming at,ope, a B.m), CPA/3.0.A.C.

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Maced, 9 am 6 pm – Leo Itong)

have their...irst Interview

the careers, master.

willis

His first job: had been or in TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER (1 apprentice in the aircraft indus-

try in the West of England and West Africa, 0p.m.via Air Indo-China France French North where his home was

He Hipod Vietname nd perhape

with grandparents, and

Found their rule too oppressive,

Focznosk, Japad; o'

for ho prosently quit his job Tak Bhing and joined the Army boya irsin vi service.

When his grandmother died,

he left the · Army,ón ș compall-

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