A superb state coach – last used at the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 – has gone on display at the National Trust’s Arlington Court in Devon. The Speaker’s State Coach, a symbol of the power and status of the Speaker of the House of Commons, has been in use [...]
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Speaker’s State Coach Now On Display at Arlington Court
Posted in Events, News, Past times on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A New Era for Cutcombe Market
Posted in Exmoor community, Farm & equine, General, Past times, People & places on November 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Frances Nicholson A century ago Cutcombe Market was not weekly but a spring and autumn affair. The cattle were Devons – Red Rubies with their sweeping horns – or Longhorns, and the sheep mostly Exmoors and Devon Closewool. The hill land, then largely unimproved, was not for finishing cattle or sheep for slaughter, but for [...]
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