Images Dated 2000 August

A Dogs Dinner, 19th August 1963 In honour of his first birthday, dalmation Shawclough

A Dog's Dinner, 19th August 1963
In honour of his first birthday, dalmation Shawclough Buchaneer - known as Jasper - was given a slap-up birthday party, to which his master, cinema owner George Batty, invited all Jasper's friends - all with distinguished pedigree, of course, like Jasper. The guests, 12 of them, were invited by gilt edged invitation and were treated to liver, biscuits, bones, 10 pints of milk and, of course, a large birthday cake. There was no spotted dog on the menu!
Photo Shows: Jasper gets ready to tuck in

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY From the original at the National Portrait Gallery Painting

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
From the original at the National Portrait Gallery
Painting by A Curran
His original signature can be seen at the British Museum in London on a letter to Miss Elizabeth Kitchener dated 3rd June 1811. He writes - I am not very enthusiastic in the cause of Walter Scott the aristocratical tone which his writings assume does not preposses me in his favour.
English Poet. Son of a landowner. Born at Warnham, Sussex on August 4th 1792. Educated at Eton and Oxford. Expelled from the University 1811 on account of some of his writings. He went to London and lodged in Soho. Visited Dublin on a political mission in 1812, and in that country produced some of his finest works. He was drowned in the Bay of Spezia on July 8th 1822

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