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ALNWICK CASTLE (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 2nd * January.,, ,* Many of the most stately homes of England are disappearing as feudal survivors. But-Alnwick Castle, one of the proudest and oldest, still braves the centuries. Here, where—except during the emergency of the Great War—all motors except King Edward’s were sedulously barred bv the late Duke, the young Duke and his mother were hosts on New, Year’s Eve to the members of the Percy Hunt, who arc privileged to hold their Hunt Ball within the ancient feudal stronghold. The Duke maintains his own piper, who wears the crescent - badge won in the Crusades by. ducal ancestors whose mail armour adorns the castle halls. On grand occasions the piper plays on his Northumbrian pipes “Chewy Chase” and “Cock o’ the North,’' the former the ancestral air of the Percies and the, latter a compliment to the Duchess, a daughter of the seventh Duke of Richmond and Gordon. who must sometimes contrast English Alnwick with Highland Gordon Castle.. ,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 3 February 1936, Page 5
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168STATELY HOME Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 3 February 1936, Page 5
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