Chair Gallery

Edwardian music room, Thornton Manor BL17551

Thornton Manor, near Port Sunlight, Merseyside. Edwardian interior of the music room, which was added in 1902. A large organ is built in over a seating area to the right. Otherwise the room serves as an art gallery, top-lit with windows in the barrel roof. Photographed by H Bedford Lemere in 1903.

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Chair, Edwardian, Furniture, Musical Instrument, Roof

Queen Elizabeth II & the Duke of Edinburgh in Bury St Edmunds

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh chat while seated during a musical performance in the Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds during her Golden Jubilee visit to Suffolk. *09/10/03: The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, was launching a set of revamped train carriages in a visit to London's Kings Cross Station. Great North Eastern Railway has invested 30 million in the refit of all 302 passenger car interiors in their electric 225 fleet. Extra legroom for passengers in standard accommodation, seats with better back support, fresh coffee-making facilities and electric power sockets for laptops are among the improvements.

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RMS Aquitania BL26730_002

RMS AQUITANIA. Interior view towards the fireplace in the Palladium Lounge. The Aquitania was launched in 1913 as the third of the Cunard Line express ocean liners (after the Mauretania and Lusitania), and the last four-stack liner to be built. She could carry over 2000 passengers on Cunard's weekly transatlantic service. Photographed here by Bedford Lemere, in August 1923 probably during a stop-over and refit in Southampton.

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