27 MAY 1949, page 20

A Hundred Years Ago

AFTER the drawing-room on Saturday afternoon, her Majesty, accom- panied by three of the children, left Buckingham Palace about five o'clock, in an open carriage, to drive round......

Nut - Grackers A Suffolk Doctor Has Been Watching With A...

of feelings (between the gourmet and the ornithologist) the disappearance of his almonds, usually reserved for Christmas-fare. A great spotted woodpecker picks up every fallen......

A Bill, Welcomed With Some Reserve By The C.p.r.e., For

coast defence is likely to become law ; bat it is treated as a local obligation. Surely subtraction from the area of England ought to be a national affair. Anyaste acquainted......

Country Life

THAT beneficent body, the Pilgrims' Trust, it, and has been, chiefly interested in historic masonry, and. this year's report is no eireption. It contains, for example, an......

Electricity Accounts

Ssa,—A few days ago I received my quarterly electricity , account. The meter-reading dates were omitted therefrom, and I at once wrote to the Electricity Board !or this......

Ire The Garden The Garden At Sit. Pod's Walden (which

eaves 117101I of its charm to the "flaxen thumb" of that shill' ul gardener, the Queen's mother) was opened to the public last week and rained much money for the nurses'......

A Sawdust Smudge I Had Been Interested In Certain Methods

of defence against frost invented and practised by a naval aria= in floater, Captain Leivis, Presteign. He has now, I we, written a letter to The Times on the subject, giving......