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Description: | In 1863, Major Edward Mackenzie of Fawley Court, near Henley, gave the British Orphan Asylum the sum of £14,000 to buy and fit Slough's Royal Hotel as it's new base. The Asylum itself was founded in Kingston Green in 1827, and before its move to Slough it was based at Clapham Common in London. On 24 June 1863, the newly married Prince & Princess of Wales (later Edward VII & Queen Alexandra) opened the Asylum and planted two sequoia trees to mark the event. The Asylum stayed at its Slough home until 1920, when it moved to Watford. For the next 18 years, the old Royal Hotel was the home of the Licensed Victuallers' Orphanage, until 1938 when the building was demolished.
The postcard also shows a Great Western Railway motor carriage.
The postcard was produced for "H. G. Stone, Photographer, Slough". The scanned postcard was postmarked "Twyford 11.15AM DE 30 05" | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Hotels ; Schools ; Licensed Victuallers' Orphanage; British Orphan Asylum ; Royal Hotel | Temporal: | start=1863-01-01; end=1920-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | H. G. Stone | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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