The likenesses of Mr & Mrs Gladstone had hung on the wall of my grandfather\u2019s farm house for as long as I could remember<\/p>\n
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They were actually plates with photographic images of the great man and his wife and dated from the late years of the nineteenth century<\/p>\n
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Although they had aged well there was a dark stain on William\u2019s plate which was supposed to have been the result of an incendiary bomb that set fire to some adjoining farm buildings in 1940 during a raid<\/p>\n
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I never believed this tale and knew that the staining had been caused by the toxic smoke that came from my grandfather\u2019s pipe<\/p>\n
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He often used to sit in his chair directly under the portrait of William smoking quite heavily<\/p>\n
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The cottage is now a restaurant and a sympathetic extension has been added to the building near where the stables used to stand<\/p>\n
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On the wall opposite the fireplace where the Welsh Dresser used to be is a solitary ribbon plate<\/p>\n
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This shows the lovely Queen Alexandra in later life<\/p>\n
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Its pale blue ribbons have faded somewhat but the likeness of Edward\u2019s dear wife is still quite clear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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