SANDRINGHAM ESTATE

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVIII, Issue 67, 24 August 1937, Page 8

SANDRINGHAM ESTATE

FORMER GLORIES TO BE

RESTORED.

KING'S REVERSAL OF POLICY OF PREDECESSOR.

(From The Guardian's Special Corres-

pondent—By Air Mail)

LONDON, July 31

The King is following in the tradition of his father, and reversing the policy of his predecessor, by maintaining the Royal estate at Sandringham in all its former glory. Economies introduced by Edward VIII. last year have been abandoned. Stables, cowsheds and kennels which were empty are being filled again. Notices given to some 40 or more men working on the estate have been withdrawn.

The flower, fruit and vegetable gardens have never made a finer picture. That famous herbaceous border which leads for 100 yards down from the house is massed with blossom. The flower gardeners tend it day by day in the hope that it will reach its moment of greatest magnificence when Queen Mary arrives in a fortnight.

It is understood that the kennels will soon be filled again with a good strain of Labradors, which will take the place of the Clumber spaniels formerly kept there. No pheasants were bred last year, but the gamekeepers have reared a good stock this summer. As elsewhere in East Anglia this season, the partridges are disappointing, for wet weather has brought much disease.

Out on the farms they are busy replacing the pedigree horses and cattle in which King George V. took such delight, but which were dispersed after his death. The famous stud of Shires at Alperton, whose stalls were left empty, are being succeeded by pedigree Suffolk horses.