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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1936.

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MONDAY, Oct. 5, 1936.

GOVERNMENT TRADE

ESTATES

It Was at Marlborough House, Built by the Victor of Blenheim, That She Met King George When They Both Were Children, and There They Lived Before Ascending the Throne

By ERNEST H. RANN

MARLBOROUGH HOURE, WHERE QUEEN MARY PLAYED AS A CHILD With It 208 Rooms It Neverthelesa Helaina an Atmosphate of Ilome to ter Majesty Who Always Found It Five-Acre Garden Place of Hafare and Now Finds s Hemories Sweet as She Makes It Her Home.

as you enter, the stairs mounting to the gate are very noble.”

It would be interesting to hear what he would any to the additional stories and rooms, the vita glasa, the electric light, the lifta, the hot water service, the bathrooms, and the motor garage in place of the old stables.

THE cost of the house was be-

tween £10,000 and ' £50,000, which was cheap even in those days, and every penny came out of the Duke's own pocket, at least so the Duchess sald. The cost would indeed have been greater if the Duchess, finding that Dutch bricks were decidedly cheaper than English bricks, had not persuaded her husband to have loads of them 'sent over as ballnst in some of the hired transports which were con-- stantly coming and going between England and Holland. Hence the raw material of Sarah's new painee in Pall Mall.

She would have had an entrance worthy of her £50,000 house, and set her heart on buying up and puiling down a number of menu dwellings that stood between the wind and her nobility, but Walpole, who disliked her, heard of the plan, and bought the bulldings him- aelf. Thus hier hopes of a noble gateway were checked.

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THE principal rooms

on the

Various plans have been initiated to bring new life to old UEEN MARY, as has been become so closely associated with Industries in Britain, and during expected, has left Bucking- the British Royal Family that few people think of its origin and the the past two years the sum of ham Palace to live in Marl- early history connected with its £5,000,000 has been earmarked borough House.

name. If John Churchill had not met Sarah Jennings there might for the use of the Special Com-,

It was almost inevitable that have been no Battle of Blenheim; the many Round the bend of the Road: Take me away from the river missioners. Among

Her Majesty should go there, and if there had been no Battle of B-4354 Hush-a-byc, Lullaby; Got the South in my Soul

the old industries are not ex-

no Marlborough House. moved across to Buckingham pected appreciably to recover, are

Palace, and his old quarters in to attract new

St. James's Palace, have been enterprise by the establishment

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House WAS redoubtable Sarah who secured That stone may still be seen in a of Trading. Estates, and thus taken over by his brother, the IT was the proud, imperious and Marlborough establish new means of livelihood Duke of York, heir presumptive from Queen Anne the lease of a passage beneath a corridor, bearing the weab wing is original, and has

suitable plot of land on which to the following inscription: build a residence, the terms being

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Blue Preluda; Swing Along

Snowball: Fat Li'l fellor; Short'nin' broad

schemes for districts in which for King Edward VIII, has Blenheim there might have been

Little man, you've had a busy day; I ain't laxy, I'm Just some intended dreamin'

B-8372 Swing Low sweet Chariot: On ma Journey

B-8423

Gloomy Sunday; Honey

B-8438 Shenandoah; jos' mah Song

C-1585

Plantation Songs, Part 1 & 2

C-2517 There's a Green Hill; Nearor, my God to Theo C-2621 Paul Robeson Medley, Part 1 & 2

S. MOUTRIE &

York Building.

Chater Road,

for the unemployed. The first to the Throne.

of these estates, which has been

organised under the name of the

North Trading Estates Company, QUEL

UEEN MARY will be in fami-

has just acquired a site of 700

Bur-

Charles II, and the

TIM. QUEEN MART

Laid by

May ye 24 )

June ye 4th)

) 1709

ground floor of Mariborough House ure now the Baloon, the largo red drawing room, the small green drawing room, the dining room, and the housghoki dining room. On the floor above are the principal bedrooms. The aaloon, formerly the vestibule, is of the full height of the original house, Jaid, and is lighted through a domed skylight, and the main staircase in

the black marble stairesse wo, often. trodden by the great Duke and his and Imperious wife. The east

so enay that they consisted of nothing more than a ground rent Her Grace the Dutches of Marl west walls at gallery level are cover- borough

ed with paintings, as are also the of 55. a year.

walls of the staircance. The paint- Bar Aurroundings, and

That grant to the no longer

ings on the walls of the saloon and. one popular Marlborough was a great

the staircases are the acres in the Team Valley to the roundings far more homey,

Work of deal criticised, especially because

Laguerre, the subject of that in the south of Newcastle-on-Tyne, for may say, than Buckingham Palace the work involved the uprooting of Her Grace was not remarkable for maloon being the Battle of Blenheim, which the sum of nearly £70,000 across the Mall in a house full

while others represent Marlborough's un oak sapling grown from a her spelling, but she was advanced other victories. The Dowager Queen Co., Ltd. has been paid. The development of dear and affectionate memories. Bescobel acorn planted by King enough to anticipate the

now Adelaide Look 4. dislike to these of this scheme will be watched

lampooners reckoning, in the calendar then tures and had them hidden behind

ple with keen interest, for it is the It was here, some 65 years ago, were busy with yerses suggesting being discussed, but not put into a sheet of stucco, and they were for

should have been effect until 1750.

a time forgotten, but one who re- first time that a group of in- that she first met the little boy that the tree

membered them mentioned their dependent business men have who was afterward-to-be- her hus allowed to grow until it could serve administered State funds

Wren planned a central block, existence to the Prince Consort, and pro- band-King George, She was 3 as a gallows for Duchess Sarah.

with two wings flanking a corridor, they were afterward uncovered and vided for the reconstruction of years of age, he was 6.

Looking round for an architect, all built of Dutch bricks with stone restored. the Special Arcus. The Team

her eye alighted on Sir Christopher dressings and balustrados. It Her mother, the Duchess of wren (much to the heartburning greatly impressed Defoe, who Valley being practically virgin soil, the development can proceed Teck, wrote to his mother, the of Sir John Vanbrugh, who had wrote, "The palace of the Duke of unhampered by previous building Princess of Wales (Queen Alex built Blenheim, and was inclined Marlborough is in every and road schemes. Here modern andra), asking if she might send to forget the squabble he had had answerable to the grandeur of Its Duke and the Duchess were at last gathered to their fathers, old with the Duchess over his fees), master.. Its court is very and the long lense factories will be erected round a "little Mary, she

is now

to the Marl- And on a fine warm day in May apacious, and finely paved, the boroughs expired In 1817, when the centre formed by service build- enough, to play with your

in 1709 the foundation stone of offices are large, and, on each side, house reverted to the Crown. It was ings such as post-office, bank, Georgies":

then given to the Princess Charlotte, restaurant, etc. According to

second heiress to tho Throne, and her husband, afterward King Leo- pold of the Belgians, and the uncle and mentor of Queen Victoria.

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the requirements of the industries They met, they played hide-and- seeking accommodation, the fac-seek among the trees in Marl- tories will be provided with coldborough House garden; they began storage, canteens, club rooms, an affectionate friendship which recreation grounds, etc. The ripened into love, site was chosen with special con- sideration for its excellent com-

For nine years, before she came munication by sea, river, road to the Throne, she lived at Mari- And rail, and there is plenty of borough House, and in “moving labour available in the surround-in" again she is only renewing ing districts. Possible future associations that must be dear and needs for the housing of a refreshing to her heart. growing population have been

catered for, and the assistance of Her friends say that she has the Royal Institute of Architects liked Marlborough House, although will assure that the entire design its 200 rooms-it is the largest and lay-out will conform with royal residence. in London, except the highest standards of beauty Buckingham Palace--have made and efficiency. Within the next little appeal to one who has always few weeks the construction of held that a house should be a home, two main roads, one from north But its five-acre garden is a haven to south and the other from east of pence, filled with old English to west will be begun, and it is expected that the whole scheme flowers such as geraniums, anap- will be completed early in 1937. Ites of the Queen.

dragons and foxgloves, all favour- Thirty-five industrial coricerns

have already made enquiries re- garding accommodation at Team Valley, and it is expected that small business men will take the ONLY once a

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year lately has there been any sign of life opportunity to avail themselves about the old brick building. This of the facilities which exist in was when the present King, then connexion with the reconstruc- Prince of Wales, lent the garden tion schemes for the Special for an annual children's charity Areas to obtain loans to establish fete, and himself stepped across themselves in the neighbourhood. from St. James's Palace, hatless, As there is also reason to expect to join in the fun.

that substantial Government or-: Marlborough House, standing dera connected with the new back from the Mall, half-hidden in defence plans will be placed in its wide, spreading garden, Is, as these new industrial centres, it is has been said, one of the greatest hoped that the venture of the royal residences in London, and ti Trading Estates will help to can boast of a life of more than exercise the dead hand which has 200 years..

for so long rested on the popula- The cost of its upkeep le said tions of the Special Areas.

to run to £2,000 a week. It has

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

"The first thing they'll do is turn their radio on real loud. then we'll sit and shout at each other all evening.”

WAY THE

It was the dower house of Queen Adelaide, the widow of King William IV, and when she passed on Lord. John Russell, at the instance of Queen Victoria; brought in

a bill appropriating the house to

to the of Wales (King Edward VII). Josephi

Prince

Hume, that arch economist, was up in arms, and declared that the proposal was premature, since Pal Court and Kensington

which were only partially occupied, were at the disposal of the Crown already.. However, the bill was carried, and by for the most. brilliant period in the life of Marl- borough House was in the long years between King Edward's marringe and his accession.

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NE of the most interesting roeme

ONE of the one in nume only. It was a favourite form of Victorian humour to make a display of bogus titles, such as Hood com- posed for the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth and for Dickens at Gods Hill. Few of these, however, beat the Marlborough House collec-. llon for point and humour, and some". may be mentioned as illustration- Boyle on Steam, Lever on Lifts. Tum Over by Page, Johnson's Contradle- tionary, Shutters on Draughts, Idols of the King, Lady Godiva on the Horse, Bacon's History of Greece. Cochin's Laya on China, the Voyage of Noah by Arkwright, Lochs and Quays of England, Sparke on the Carburetter, and, Constable's Notes on Motoring.

Marlborough House, was fully pre- pared for the Prince of Walen (King. Edward VII) zome years ago, but he would not leave St. James's Palace. Théző it stands to-day, with enly a few alterations to meet Her Majesty's individual tartes in decora- Hon and furnishing.