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unusual facts about Edwardian



Ally Sloper

Attempts after the war to revive Sloper proved short-lived, as Sloper was a somewhat stereotypical Victorian and Edwardian type, and did not fit into the new post-war world.

Amélie Claire Leroy

Leroy wrote seven dozen novels, many of them aimed at young women, in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Bachelors' Club

The club had a reputation for having a markedly younger membership than many other Edwardian clubs, and given the high-spirited antics which sometimes ensued on the premises, it was cited (along with Buck's) as an influence on the fictional Drones Club, in some of P.G. Wodehouse's earlier stories.

Billie Love

In 1989 she moved to the Isle of Wight and began the third part of a career as a collector of rare photographs specialising in late Victorian and Edwardian life, and with her partner Anna Shepherd she created the Billie Love Historical Collection and published several books including How to Become A Child, published by The Billie Love Historical Collection (1996; ISBN 0951841017).

Burrell's Field

# Four Edwardian houses, including Whewell House (built for L. F. L. Oppenheim, Whewell Professor of International Law, later home Major-General Frederick Barton Maurice and Silbury House.

Charles Allom

And when the Empress of Britain was launched the same year as the "new" Waldorf-Astoria, among its modern Art Deco decors, the "Mayfair Lounge" by White, Allom was the one space in Edwardian Renaissance manner.

Clydach, Swansea

There is a bronze statue of Ludwig Mond, commissioned after his death in 1909, amongst the daffodils opposite The Mond’s redbrick Edwardian entrance.

Daniel Carr

Carr is the younger brother of actor Gary Carr, who appeared as jazz singer Jack Ross in series four of Downton Abbey, Julian FellowesITV blockbuster, set in a fictional Yorkshire country estate and depicting the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era.

Edith Haisman

Edith's last memory of her father was that he was dressed in an Edwardian dinner jacket while smoking a cigar and sipping brandy on Titanic's deck as Edith and her mother were being lowered in the lifeboat.

Former National Westminster Bank

The former National Westminster Bank in Spring Gardens, Manchester, England, is an Edwardian bank building constructed in 1902 for Parr's Bank by Charles Heathcote.

Govanhill

Govanhill is home to one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by James Robert Rhind.

H. T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Work Building

The front facade is sheathed in decorative silver and black painted worked sheet metal in an Edwardian Classicism style.

Henry Robinson Hall

Henry Robinson Hall (1859–1927) was a Victorian and Edwardian landscape painter in oils and watercolours noted for his Highland cattle.

High Park North

The oldest residential houses in High Park North were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s and are mostly Victorian, Edwardian and Tudor-style.

Howell Davies

Like many successful Victorian and Edwardian businessmen, Davies was eager to serve his community through municipal politics and at the same time provide himself a stepping-stone to further advancement.

Hurstbourne Tarrant

The famous Victorian, Edwardian artist, the American, Anna Lea Merritt, lived in the village for many years.

Ilminster

The town has a selection of shops including a traditional Edwardian-style clothing and soft furnishings store called Dyers.

James Lauder

James Lafayette (real name James Stack Lauder), late Victorian and Edwardian portrait photographer, and managing director of Lafayette Ltd

John Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury

His grandmother was the Edwardian couturiere Lady Duff-Gordon, otherwise known by her professional name Lucile, and who was a survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster.

Lily Elsie

Lily Elsie (8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962) was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.

Llandudno Pier

Llandudno Pier is often chosen for Victorian and Edwardian seaside filming locations, notably for the 2002 TV production of The Forsyte Saga, and in 2005, was voted "Pier of the Year 2005" by the members of the National Piers Society.

Mannamead

It was an affluent Victorian and early Edwardian suburb with wide avenues such as Seymour Road, grand villas and Thorn Park referred to in Pevsner.

Mel Bernie Company

Inspired by the Edwardian and Art Deco jewelry of the TV show’s period, this collection was created by the design team at 1928 and approved by the Downton Abbey producers in England through an exclusive licensing agreement.

Michael Holroyd

His latest book, A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers (2010), concerns the Villa Cimbrone on the Gulf of Salerno and the Edwardian literary and society figures who lived there such as Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe.

Middleton Jameson

A late Victorian and Edwardian artist, active in production from around 1877-1919, Jameson painted naturalistic scenes, capturing fine detail in both indoor and external settings.

Ministers Island

By the time of Van Horne’s death in 1915, the island had been transformed into a small Xanadu, sporting a sandstone mansion furnished in the most lavish late Edwardian manner, manicured grounds, scenic roads, greenhouses turning out exotic fruits and vegetables, as well as a breeding farm producing prize-winning Clydesdale horses and Dutch Belted cattle.

Orchid hunting

Tom Hart Dyke, a plant hunter who follows the tradition of the Victorian and Edwardian orchid hunters, was held in 2000 by kidnappers thought to be FARC guerillas in the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, while hunting for rare orchids, a plant for which he has a particular passion.

Peverell

The area now consists mostly of Edwardian terraced houses, but also includes schools and a number of churches.

Port Sunlight

It starred Phyllis Dare, one of the most popular pin-ups of the Edwardian era, and was written by Paul Alfred Rubens.

Radisson Blu Edwardian Heathrow Hotel

According to Frommer's, the hotel is decorated in the Edwardian style with Persian rugs, brass-railed staircases, chandeliers and hand-painted hardwood furnishings.

Royton Ring Mill, Royton

Despite an economic depression brought about by the demise of cotton spinning, Royton's population has continued to grow as a result of intensive housing redevelopment which has modernised its former Edwardian districts.

The Curious Room

It also contains a draft of a libretto for an opera based on Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, and five radio plays: "Vampirella", which she then reworked as "The Lady of the House of Love" in The Bloody Chamber collection, "The Company of Wolves", "Puss in Boots" (both reworkings of Charles Perrault's fairy tales) and two "artificial biographies", one of Victorian painter, Richard Dadd, who murdered his father, and the other about Edwardian novelist, Ronald Firbank.

The Scotsman Hotel

The Scotsman Hotel Edinburgh opened in 2001 in the Edwardian (1905) building which had housed The Scotsman newspaper for nearly a century.


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