Scrapbook
Mary Stephanie Hyde Parker, Mrs Kenneth William Gordon Duke (1894-1953)
Category
Ephemera
Date
11 Nov 1913 - 1957
Materials
paper, leather
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Melford Hall, Suffolk
NT 926447
Summary
Red leather photograph album, containing photographs relating to places visited by Stephanie Hyde Parker from her coming out up to early years of her marriage, with autographs of people she meets. SHP painted monogram on flyleaf. Lordington, Emsworth, Hants; Hedenham Rectory, Bungay; Basing Park, Alton, Hants; Mistley Lodge Place, Manningtree; Melford Hall, Suffolk Jan1914; Grand Hotel, Bellevue and Kurhaus, Gstaad - 3 pages; 13 Seymour Street, Ickworth, and Ascot - Dance at Mrs Leech's June 9th 1914; Down Grange, Basingstoke; pen and ink drawing of Cornwall, Devon and Wales; outbreak of war, cartoons and comments Aug 1914 - 2 pages, including autographs of officers of East Anglian Div Royal Artillery billeted at Melford Hall Aug 18th-25th; Ickworth photographs including views of Hall and corridor, autograph of Phyllis Hervey, Marjorie Hervey and Theodora Bristol, Jan-Feb 1915; Hedenham Rectory drawings; 22 Cadogan Gardens; Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth - mementos; Adair Lodge, Aldeburgh; Brome Hall, Eye - a Red Cross Afternoon; Down Grange, Basingstoke - photographs and programme; Penrose, Helston, Cornwall - photographs; Bellevue, Red Cross Hospital, Beds - painting and comments; 4 Kensington Palace Gardens, photographs and autographs, including Eliza Leech May 10 1916; Red Cross Hospital, Sudbury - photographs and autographs, including SHP on duty Feb 1916-Jan 1917; Hotel Majestic, Harrogate - photographs, WMP and SHP June-July 1916; Hotel D'Angleterre, Kobenhavn, Bill Nov 1931; Details of Miss Hyde Parker's wedding to Sub-lieut KWG Duke RN, 25 Oct 1919 - 4 pages; 3 Holland Park Avenue, W11, 1943-1951, including Mrs Duke's Bees and award certificate - 7 pages.
Provenance
Created by Stephanie Hyde Parker (1894-1953), the daughter of Rev William Hyde Parker 10th Bt; by descent through her family. Purchased by the National Trust at Sworders auction September 2002.
Makers and roles
Mary Stephanie Hyde Parker, Mrs Kenneth William Gordon Duke (1894-1953), compiler