OR2386/4

Album

1870-1911

From: 1870 To: 1911

loose in front: photograph of moving of Frederica Orlebar's summerhouse from the Park House to the Slade House (identified on dorse) Includes Joe Watts, horsekeeper holding horse Sam Brown, estate bailiff Frederica Orlebar Mrs Rouse Orlebar in riding skirt Mr Franklin Farm Bailiff Richard Orlebar Rouse Orlebar Erica Orlebar (later Graham/standing on the summerhouse) A Bass and Jim Mardlin in background 25 October 1905 Newspaper cuttings page 1 Solar Eclipse. The Daily Graphic 24 January & 8 February 1898 page 2 Christening of future Edward VIII photograph H R H Prince Edward of York Photographers: W & D Downey, Photographers 57 and 61 Ebury Street, London SW dated 1896 page 3 blank page 4 Place names of Bedfordshire by The Professor Skeat Manuscript notes on various Bedfordshire place names page 5 Round the county: 2 articles on Podington one includes Harvest Home on the Hinwick Estate one dated 22 September 1898 page 6 Obituary of the Reverend J M Bacon, aeronaut December 1909 Frederick Greenwood and the Suez Canal purchase. Times 26 December 1911 Manuscript Letter (2 sheets one stuck in one loose) Letter from Mademoiselle Isabelle Peyronnet from Paris 34 Pigalle to Lady Alwyne Compton graphic account of siege of Paris (her sister was Laura Russell) critical of Gambetta Christmas Day, 100th Day of Siege 1870 page 7 Newspaper cuttings. Demolition of Blue Coat School, Newgate Street, London Story of Langur monkey in an Indian hospital Rules for working out a lady's age, under 100! page 8 includes "Sledging through Siberia" by Lionel F Gowing in the "Graphic" view of Doge's Palace from S Giorgio page 9 Newspaper cuttings including article re discovery of wreck of HMS Anson sunk 1807 after 95 years Times Weekly Edition Wireless Translantic Telegraphy (Marconi) 21 December 1902 Letter re Rabies Diagram showing ailments of a horse page 10 Bibby's Quarterly re Sponges February 1897 Birds on the Black List Daily Mail 26 April 1905 Manuscript Letter from Henry Rose Holy Rood Street Chard to Horace (Dugmore?) discusses beauty of garden of old and new houses, which merge tradition of how hoopoe got golden crown and feathers; thanks to King Solomon misdescription of a wren as a bunting 5 November 1901 Address by Head Master of Bedford Grammar School 1 April 1903 page 11 "Acorns and Konkers" Birds as Surgeons Manuscript note from Southey's Book of the Church re Joan Boughton first female martyr manuscript notes re Priests Holes - Vaux and Great Harrowden later from 'Secret Chamber and Hiding Place' by Allan Fea (?) 1901 page 12 Two articles in Times on Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire 9 & 10 April 1901 loose between pages 12-13 Article in Express on voluntary martyrs to Science - King sending message to X-Ray victim 9 February 1909 page 13 Reprint of Morning Post's account of Coronation of Queen Victoria 1838 22 May 1902 Letter from Arthur Shadwell of 1 Yard quoting from two manuscript letters of Sir Lancelot Shadwell re Queen Victoria and the Privy Council at her accession and on announcing her engagement to Prince Albert Times 18 May 1897 page 14 R A B Orlebar from Mother 7 Oct 1902 (relating to material on page 13) page 15 Coronation photographs of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra Photographer Rotary Photo to London EC page 16 Photographs of holiday taken by the Orlebars at Milford on sea, Hampshire 5 August - 5 September 1908 page 17 Views of Cathedrals: Salisbury, Durham, Ely page 18 Article on Sir Samuel Baker (1821 - 1893) explorer reviewing memoir of Baker by T Douglas Murray and A Silvia White Letter to Times re Horatio Nelson and the Battle of the Nile and present deficiency of Navy 1893 page 19 Copy of Cope's painting of Burial of Charles I Note threatened by London smoke but Professor Church hopes to clean it with application of bread crumb page 20 views of cathedrals, Canterbury, Gloucester page 21 Newspaper cutting: portrait of Oliver Cromwell page 22 2 postcards of Caudebec en Caux, France showing flood damage R R Orlebar and R A B Orlebar in France August 1906 Newspaper cutting re Charge of Light Brigade Battle of Balaclava Account of Captain Godfrey Morgan, 17th Lancers (left in charge when senior officers killed) Captain Morgan later became Lord Tredegar page 23 Diagram of simple toys and how to make them produced by E R Suffling page 24 Newspaper cut outs of famous cricketers R Abel, Mr W G Grace, T Hayward Gunn, J T Hearne, T Richardson, Mr A E Stoddart page 25 The Game of Spin Spin Simple Toys for Little Visitors to the Country page 26 Arrival of 19 1/2 tons of embalmed cats at Liverpool from catacomb in Central Egypt page 27 5 photographs a)window and lattice b)Susanna Brown (of Podington?) (d 1905) photograph dated 1904 c)Joyce and her mother Faith Orlebar October 1903 d)window, lattice and porch of a) above e)pergola with a wheelbarrow underneath; winter list in pencil of births and deaths of the Orlebars horses page 28 Detailed account of Moore's Retreat to Corunna (to celebrate anniversary) Morning Post 16 January 1909 Earthquake in Messina, Sicily and Reggio Mainland Italy 30 & 31 September 1908 (continued onto page 29) page 30 Map of Earthquake Area page 31 Further re the Earthquake 1 January 1909 Centenary of death of Sir John Moore including unpublished letter of Major J Colborne (later Field Marshal Lord Seaton) Morning Post 18 January 1909 page 32 Further about the earthquake 2 & 4 January 1909 page 33 Copy made by F St J Orlebar for her grandson from Highways and Byeways in Oxford and the Cotswolds by Griggs deliberate destruction of Banbury Church in 1790 page 34 Transcript of Inscription on the Monument erected at Chatham in Gordon's memory in 1885 page 36 Sheet of The Illustrated London News illustrations taken from 'The Exile of St Helena' from the French of Philippe Gonnard, published by William Heinemann page 37 & 38 blank loose between pages 38-39 Canvassing Card (including photographs of the Candidates) of F Gorell Barnes and Rouse Orlebar for Northampton General Election 1906 page 39 No 1652671 Diploma of an Associate, The Primrose League R A Orlebar on recommendation of Habitation 229 4 May 1909 page 40 Newspaper cutting re Oxford v Cambridge Boat race R C Bourne (nephew of Faith Orlebar) stroke on winning Oxford boat 4 April 1909 loose between pages 40-41 Cuttings re King Edward VII's visits to Rugby School 10 July 1909

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Orlebar, Frederica,
Watts, Joe,
Brown, Sam,
Orlebar, Rouse,
Franklin,
Orlebar, Richard,
Orlebar, Rouse,
Orlebar, Erica,
Bass, A,
Mardlin, Jim,
Edward VIII,
W & D Downey,
Bacon, J M,
Greenwood, Frederick,
Peyronnet, Isabelle,
Compton, Alwyne,
Russell, Laura,
Gowing, Lionel F,
Cope,
Charles I,
Church,
Cromwell, Oliver,
Orlebar, R R,
Orlebar, R A B,
Morgan, Godfrey,
Suffling, E R,
Abel, R,
Grace, W G,
Gunn, T Hayward,
Hearne, J T,
Richardson, T.,
Stoddart, A E,
Brown, Susanna,
Orlebar, Joyce,
Orlebar, Faith,
Moore, John,
Colborne, J,
Seaton,
Rose, Henry,
Dugmore, Horace,
Boughton, Joan,
Gainsborough, Thomas,
Devonshire,
Shadwell, Arthur,
Shadwell, Lancelot,
Victoria, HM Queen,
Albert, HRH Prince,
Edward VII,
Alexandra (Queen Consort of Edward VII),
Baker, Samuel,
Murray, T Douglas,
White, A Silvia,
Nelson, Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile & of Burnham Thorpe,
Gonnard, Philippe,
Barnes, F Gorell,
Bourne, R.C.

photographs, newspaper cuttings, Hinwick Slade House, horsekeeper, estate bailiff, bailiff, solar eclipse, Daily Graphic, photographers, BEDFORDSHIRE, PODINGTON, Hinwick House, Suez Canal, letters, Paris, rabies, birds, Bedford Grammar School, headmaster, paintings, coronations, Privy Council, Salisbury Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, Royal Navy, Canterbury Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral, France, toys, monuments, elections, Northampton, Rugby School