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Description: | A square version of this tin was produced at the same time. The name Blenheim is derived from a decisive battle that took place on the 13th August 1704 between the English and the French near a small village called Blindheim or Blenheim. John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, won a great allied victory over the forces of Louis XIV. In reward for his services in defending Holland and Austria from invasion by the French, a grateful Queen Anne granted to Marlborough the Royal Manor of Woodstock and signified that she would build him, at her own expense, a house to be called Blenheim. Sir John Vanburgh designed the house. Building began in 1705 and was completed in 1722. The side of the tin has the Churchill coat-of-arms with its Spanish motto 'Fiel pero desdichado' - 'Faithful, but unfortunate'. | 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 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | building environment tree gateway royalty bridge palace landscape | Temporal: | start=1972-01-01; end=1973-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Huntley, Boorne & Stevens | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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