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MONDAY, OCT. 6, 1936.

GOVERNMENT TRADE

ESTATES

Various plans

have

been

initiated to bring new life to old industries in Britain, and during ·

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 HOUSE, WHERE QUEEN MANY PLAYED AS A CHILD With 70 200 Noems It Nevertheless Netalna an Atmosphere of fame 10 Her Majesty Who Always Found 50 Five-Arre farden Place of Refuge and Now Finda in

Memorise Sweet se She Makes It. Bor lame.

UEEN MARY, as has been become so closely associated with 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 Mark carly history connected with its £5,000,000 has been earmarked borough House.

name. If John Churchili 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; Round the bend of the Road; Take me away from the river missioners. Among

the many

Her Majesty should go there, and if there had been no Battle of Hush-a-bye, Lullaby: Got the South in my Soul

no Marlborough House. moved across to Buckingham Palace, and his old quarters in

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

the old industries are not ex- pected appreciably to recover, are

new

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enterprise by the establishment

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

It would be interesting to hear what he would say to the additional stories and rooms, the vita glass, the electric light, the lifts, 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, those which was cheap even in days, and every penny came out of the Duke's own pocket, at least ko the Duchess said. The cost would inced have been greater if the Duchess, finding that Dutch, brieks .were decidedly cheaper than English bricks, had not persuaded her husband to havo londs of them sent over as ballast in some of the hired transports which were con stantly coming and going between England and Holland. Henco the raw material of Sarah'a new palace in Pall Mall.

She would have had an entrance worthy of her £50,000 house, and set her heart on buying up and pulling down a number of mean dwellings that stood between the wind and her nobility, but Walpole, who disliked her, heard of the, plan, and bought the buildings him.". self. Thus her hopes of a noble gateway were cliccked,

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the

THE principal rooms

ground floor of Marlborough House are now the saloon, the large red drawing room, the small green drawing room. the dining room, and the household dining On the floor above are the principal bedrooma. The saloon, formerly the vestibule, is of the full height of the original house, was the proud, imperious and redoubtable Sarah who secured That stone may still be seen in a the west wing is original, and has

Marlborough House was.

laid, and is lighted through a domed skylight, and the main staircaso In

R.M. QUEEN MAKY

room.

of Trading Estates, and thus taken over by his brother, the IT establish new means of livelihood Duke of York, heir presumptive from Queen Anne the lense of a passage beneath a corridor, bearing the black marble staircase so often

for

the unemployed. The first to the Throne.

of these estates, which has been organised under the name of the

North Trading Estates Company,

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suitable plot of land on which, to the following Inscription: build a residence, the terms being до сляз that they consisted of nothing more than a ground rent

QUEEN MARY will be in fami- of 65. a year.

has just acquired a site of 700 Bar surroundings, and sur- That grant to the no longer one.popular Marlborough was a great acres in the Team Valley to the roundings far more homey, south of Newcastle-on-Tyne, for may say, than Buckingham Palace deal criticised, especially because

Laid by er Grace the Dutches of

borough May ye 24 )

June ye, 4th)

)1709

which the sum of nearly £70,000 across the Mall, in a house full the work involved the uprooting of Her Grace was not remarkable for while others represent Marlborough's S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. has been paid. The development of dear and affectionate memories. Boscobel acorn planted by King enough to anticipate the new Adelaide took a dislike to these pic-

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LANE, CRAWFORD'S

every way THE Duke and the Duchess were at last gathered to their fathers,

trodden by the great Duke and his Imperious wife. The cast and Marl west walls at gallery level are cover- ed with paintings, as are also the walls of the staircases. The paint- ings on the walls of the saloon and The staircases arc the work of Laguerre, the subject of thint in the saloon being the Battle of Blenheim, L ook sapling grown from her spelling, but she was advanced other victories. The Downger Queen of-this-scheme will be watched

Charles Hand the lampooners..reckoning-in-the-calendar-then-tures and had them hidden behind" with keen interest, for it is the It was here, some 65 years ako, wore busy with verses suggesting being discusserl, but not put Into sheet of stucco, and they were for first time that a group of in- that she first met the little hoy that the tree abould have been effect until 1750.

a Ume forgotten, but one who re- dependent business men have who was afterward to be her hus allowed to grow until it could serve

membered them mentioned their administered State funds

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

with two wings Banking 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 Areas. The Team

It Her mother, the Duchess of her eye alighted on Sir Christopher dressings and balustrades. Valley being practically virgin

Wren (much to the heartburning greatly impressed Defoe, who to his mother, the of Sir John Vanbrugh, who had wrote, "The palace of the Duke of soil, the development can proceed Teck, wrote unhampered by previous building Princess of Wales (Queen Alex built Blenheim, and was inclined Marlborough is in and road schemes. Here modern andra), asking if she might send to forget the squabble he had had answerable to the grandeur of its factories will be erected round a "little_Mary, she is now

old with the Duchess over his fees), master. Its court in very and the long lease to the Marl- And on a fine warm day in May spacious, and finely paved, the boroughs expired in 1817, when the centre formed by service build enough, to play with your

in 1709 the foundation atone of offices are large, and, on each side, house reverted to the Crown. It was ings such as post-office, bank, Georgic." restaurant, etc. According to the requirements of the industries They met, they played hide-and- seeking accommodation, the fac- seek among the trees in Marl torics will be provided with cold borough 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-

For nine years, before she came sideration for its excellent com- munication by sea, river, road to the Throne, she lived at Marl- 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-nere garden is a haven to south and the other from east

to west will be begun, and it is of peace, filled with old English expected that the whole scheme flowers such as geraniums, snap- will be completed early in 1987. ites of the Queen...

dragons and foxgloves, all favour: Thirty-five industrial concerns have already made enquiries re- garding accommodation at Team Valley, and it is expected that

once a year lately has

small business men will take the ONLY

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! Arens to obtain loans to establish fete, and himself stepped across themselves in the neighbourhood. from St. James's Palace, batiend,! Aa there is also reason to expect to join in the fun, →

that substantial; Government or Marlborough House: standing | ders connected with the new back from the Mall, half-hidden in defence plans will be placed in its wide, spreading garden, Is, ng these now industrial centres, it is has been anid, one of the greatest hoped that the venture of the royal residences in London, and ft 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- tions of the Special Arena,

The cost of ita upkeep is said 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 foud. then, we'll sit and shout at each other all evening,"

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

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 the Prince

Edward ага

of

Joseph Hume, that arch economy was up in arms, and declared that was.up

1. the proposal was premature, since Hampton

Court and Kensington Palace, 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 marriage and his accession...

..

ONE of the most interesting rooms

the library. It is one in name only. It was a favourite form of Victorian humour to make a display of bogus tittes, such as Hood com- posed for the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth and for Dickens at Gads Hill. Few of these, however, beat the Marlborough House collec- tion for point and humour, and some mentioned as illustration-- Boyle on Steam, Lever on Lifts, Turn Over by

Johnson's

on's Contradic-

may bo

ttomry

of theters on Draughts, Idols

Lady Godiva on the. Horse, Bacon's History of Greece, Cochin's Lays on China, the Voyage of Noah by Arkwright, Lochs and Quays of England, Sparke on the Carburetter, and Constable's. Notes on Motoring in

Marlborough House was fully pre- pared for the Prince of Wales (King Edward VIII) some years ago, but he would not have St. James's Phlace. There it stands today will only a few alterations to meet Hor Majesty's individual tamtes in decora tion and furnishing.