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I think the date 29 February 1789 must be as imaginary as George III's amazing recovery seemed to the people at that time. And shouldn't it be "Myddelton House"?
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1789... Is this something to do with the old New Year?
Kirk | 26.05.13 - 9:58 a.m. | #
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I think Andrew Parker Bowles must be the great nephew of Edward, not his great uncle.
dg writes: Agreed, and changed, thanks.
Charles | Homepage | 26.05.13 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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I reckon the unidentified flowers are aliums. Go back in a couple of weeks & see what they look like then!
Bronchitikat | 26.05.13 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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DG, there is a reference here that Robbie Burns wrote a letter dated 29 February 1789. Strange. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/divine_service_in_the_kirk_of_lamington/
Andrew Rodger | 26.05.13 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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Up until 1752 the new year officially started on March 25th, so January and February were nominally part of the previous year. That might explain 1787, but not 1789.
diamond geezer | 26.05.13 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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Definitely Myddelton:
http://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/en/content/cms/nature/gardens-heritage/myddelton-house-gardens/
NLW | 26.05.13 - 9:09 p.m. | #
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Definitely Myddelton.
I can't believe it's taken me that long to notice!
diamond geezer | Homepage | 26.05.13 - 9:34 p.m. | #
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The 'Myddelton House Gardens' page on the visitleevalley website is an example of the widely-found inconsistency:- it uses the favoured spelling widely, but also has a picture of 'Irises at Myddleton House'!
Bob Lindsay-Smith | 26.05.13 - 10:58 p.m. | #
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The website timeanddate.com, which looks pretty reliable, shows February 1789 as a normal 28-day month for the UK.
GA Annie | 26.05.13 - 11:38 p.m. | #
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February has always had 28 days and 29 only in leap years. All leap years, in both the Julian calendar (set up by Julius Caesar, no less) and the Gregorian calendar (Pope Gregory the something in the 16th century) divide by 4; the only difference is that in the Gregorian century years are leap years only if they divide by 400 (so 1600 and 2000 were leap years, 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not).
So it was probably a human error. We still see people dating things 29 Feb.
Oh, and it's almost a myth that the New Year started in March until the UK adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752. Read Pepys's diaries: he regularly celebrated the New Year on 31 Dec and 1 Jan in the 1660s. It was the legal and financial year that started in March (which is why the tax year still starts on 5 April, which is approx 25 March adjusted from Julian to Gregorian).
Alan Burkitt-Gray | 28.05.13 - 2:34 p.m. | #
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Did you miss the bits of old London Bridge and St Paul's...?
http://greatwen.com/2011/04/14/secret-london-finding-bits-of-lost-london-bridge/
SJM | 03.06.13 - 9:33 p.m. | #
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