Firstly I would like to retract my comment about 5 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays happening only every 823. I was sent this information by a third party and passed it on in good faith. It seems that this is nonsense as has been pointed out by our good friend Ann. The next August with the 5 days in will be in 2025, and in 2015 May will have five of those three days!
We decided to be off into Tring for a more detailed look around the town using a guide we had got from the TIC. There seem to be a few long term moorers in Tring Cutting as we walked down the canal. We started by the Zoological Museum and the Louisa Cottages. They were built by the Rothschild Estate as Alms houses between 1893 and 1903.
We decided to be off into Tring for a more detailed look around the town using a guide we had got from the TIC. There seem to be a few long term moorers in Tring Cutting as we walked down the canal. We started by the Zoological Museum and the Louisa Cottages. They were built by the Rothschild Estate as Alms houses between 1893 and 1903.
Louisa Cottages Alms Houses.
As we walked up the High Street we popped into several Charity shops and came out with a cork screw and a map of West London. We were embarrassed when we couldn't open a bottle of wine when we had visitors, and I like a map. We also walked up Park Street where the houses for the senior staff at the 'big house' where, and the road that crossed Tring Park. Now the A41 by-pass cuts right across it. However you could get a good view of the Nell Gwynn avenue of Lime trees. These were planted in the 1800's. It was said to celebrate the past visit of Charles II and his mistress Nell Gwynn. There is an Obelisk named for Nell Gwynn in the Park too. The Mansion is now the Tring School of performing Arts.
The Lime tree Avenue named after Nell Gwynn.
Tring Park.
The Mansion
The original house was designed by Christopher Wren and built in 1685. In 1705 Sir William Gore a three times Lord Mayor of London bought it. It remained in the family until 1785 when a London Banker bought it from the family. At this time it was much altered and the grounds were set out by Capability Brown. In 1823 a Manchester textile Magnate bought the place and from 1838 the Rothschild family rented it as a summer residence. It was up for sale in 1872 and it was bought by the Rothschilds as a wedding present for a son. It was lived in until the Dowager Lady Rothschild died in 1935. During WWII Rothschild Bank used it as their HQ and in 1945 the School of Performing Arts took it over.
After lunch we walked back in the sun and I decided to saw up the the wood that I had collected down the Aylesbury Arm. I was using the picnic bench opposite our mooring and when a C&RT van stopped I thought I was going to get a ticking off but he just told me that the tree that had blown over just next to the site would be cleared up tomorrow so there would be more wood available then. Later we are going to pole the boat over the canal to fill up with water as we will be low now and I don't want to run out and drag stuff from the bottom of the tank through the pump.
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