Join me for a rustle via the pages of the P&J on today in 1950.
Princess Anne had been christened that weekend at Buckingham Palace, and a uncommon {photograph} appeared, that of 4 Royal generations.
Anne is held by her mom Princess Elizabeth (the late Queen), her grandmother, (the late Queen Mother) and her great-grandmother Queen Mary.
Some particulars of the christening emerged.
True to type, Princess Anne behaved impeccably all through the ceremony, which took place within the white and gold music room of the palace.
She wore a gown originally made for Queen Victoria, and subsequently worn by all her kids, and most members of the Royal household since.
Exquisitely adorned cake
The one-tier cake sounds beautiful, adorned with a small silver cradle containing a tiny child wearing ivory lace on the highest.
“The front panel was decorated with the crest of Princess Elizabeth and her husband, showing Edinburgh Castle enclosed in the Garter,” the P&J reported.
What’s putting concerning the photograph is that Queen Mary appears thunderstruck with disapproval, whereas Princess Elizabeth appears to be like uncertain of what she’s truly holding in her arms.
Or maybe the Princess simply crammed her nappy.
A real mom hen
We’re specialists at capturing lovable animal behaviour in our social media age, however animals had been busy being cute lengthy earlier than that.
Here’s a narrative a couple of hen mothering 5 kittens whose mom had proved to be neglectful.
The cat, from Wester Elchies Home Farm close to Craigellachie, fed the kittens, however took no additional curiosity of their wellbeing.
The hen handled the kittens like household
Enter a White Leghorn hen with a powerful mothering intuition.
“She fusses over them as if they were her own family,” reported the P&J.
“She gives them with heat and luxury. She refuses to depart them at any time and shepherds them across the farmyard.
“She has even arranged comfortable sleeping quarters for them in a tub.”
Aberdeen all of a Whirlwind
In Aberdeen, folks flocked to see the visiting destroyer HMS Whirlwind.
She had seen laborious army service, together with putting a Sumatran oil refinery within the newly shaped British Pacific Fleet in World War II, a really recent reminiscence in 1950.
Trafalgar Day was being celebrated
It was Trafalgar Day, one thing we don’t appear to commemorate any extra, celebrating British triumph on the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Officers and males from the ship together with the ocean cadets and numerous civic dignitaries attended a Trafalgar Day service within the West Church of St Nicholas, parading in from Union Street, St Nicholas Street and Correction Wynd.
Within an hour and a half of HMS Whirlwind being open for inspection, greater than 450 folks had crossed the gangway.
The ship would serve within the Cold War earlier than being destroyed as goal follow in Cardigan Bay in 1974.
Unidentified objects within the skies
There was a report of a newspaper vendor in Edinburgh who had seen “three round dark-coloured objects with small tails, flying one behind the other, high up in the sky.”
Her husband and a bus driver confirmed the sightings, describing them as “flying in formation, and for all the world like tadpoles, with big round faces and little tails.”
The bus driver, a Mr Kirkhope, stated: “They seemed to have come in from over the Forth and were going at about the speed of a plane. There was no noise of engines.”
The {couples}’ concept that they may have been guests from one other planet was scorned by climate specialists who determined that they had been in all probability low cloud formations or climate balloons.
Disease outbreaks in Aberdeen
A small paragraph serves as a reminder of how precarious public well being may very well be in these days.
Twelve instances of scarlet fever and 5 of pulmonary tuberculosis, the dreaded TB, had been reported to the Aberdeen well being officer throughout that week, together with one of many equally dreaded poliomyelitis.
An outbreak of polio which began in 1947 was solely simply dying down within the nation, and it might strike once more, notably badly in Moray, some 4 years later.
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