Images Dated 4th September 2015

A Royal Command Portrait at Buck Queen Elizabeth II wearing an evening gown with

A Royal Command Portrait at Buck
Queen Elizabeth II wearing an evening gown with the blue ribbon of Star of the Garter a diamond necklace ( a wedding present from the City of London) Diamond drop earrings and two diamond bangles. The diamond drop brooch at the top of the blue ribbon is a family heirloom.
Wearing on her head is a diamond diadem the headband of which is composed of a row of diamonds between two rows of pearls April 1953

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The World s Largest Pie...... Denby Dale, Yorkshire : The World s largest meat

The Worlds Largest Pie......
Denby Dale, Yorkshire : The Worlds largest meat and potatoe pie - The Denby Dale Pie - leaves the bakehouse here today for the " Pie - Field " where it was to be cut up and sold to the thousands of visitors in aid of charity.
The baking of the pie was started at noon yesterday, and into the pie has gone 4, 500 lbs of beef, one and a half tons of potatoes, one and a half cwt of seasoning, ten cwt of flour and six cwt of fat, salt and baking powder.
The village has been famous for its mammoth pies since 1788 when the first pie was cooked to commemorate the recovery of King George III from a mental illness. Since that time the pie has been baked at different occasions, the last being in 1928. Todays ceremony was to commemorate the recent Royal births.
5 September 1964

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A new hat for Mr Winston Churchill. Mr Winston Churchill, appointed Lord Warden

A new hat for Mr Winston Churchill.
Mr Winston Churchill, appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1941, was finally installed in the office by the Court of Shepway at Dover Castle today (Wednesday). A former Lord Warden, Lord Beauchamp, designer uniform worn by Mr Churchill, which somewhat resembles an admirals and includes a cocked hat, epauletted coat and much gold braid. Mr Churchill was received at Dover with military honours and escorted to the castle by the motorcyclists of the R.A.C.S and Royal Corps of Signals. A fanfare of trumpets, greeted his entrance by the Constable Tower and at his installation as Lord Warden the salute and 19 guns was fired.
Photo shows, Mr Winston Churchill (wearing cocked hat) walking in procession after his installation as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports at Dover Castle (Kent) today, Wednesday.
14 August 1946

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