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Les Omnibus
Tuesday 6 January
Nous vous invitons à aller lire sur le blog de FIGOLI, le superbe article sur les OMNIBUS, qu’il vient de publier.
 
Down the road..
Saturday 5 July

Vocabulary

The expression «Down the road» began to be used about the middle of the 19th century when driving a coach and four was becoming increasingly popular among wealthy young men. Some of the older men thought that the style of turnout seen at meets of the Coaching Club was not in keeping with the true coaching tradition. They believed that driving a coach over any kinds of road for long distances with different team of horses like the old public stage coaches was the true coaching tradition , or , as they piut it, truly "down the road" . These were enthusiasts who strated «road coaching» during the 1860’s

Tom Ryder

Stage coach
 
Down The Road
samedi 5 juillet

«  DOWN THE ROAD  »

L’ expression “Down the road” fut employée à partir du milieu du XIXème siècle lorsque mener un coach attelé à quatre chevaux était devenu un sport très prisé des jeunes gens nantis de la bonne société.

Cependant, parmi les anciens pratiquants du coaching, certains estimaient que le style des équipages se présentant aux réunions du Coaching Club, ne respectaient pas l’esprit de la vraie tradition du coaching.

Ils estimaient que, mener un coach sur toutes sortes de routes, et sur de longues distances, en utilisant des attelages e chevaux différents, comme cela se faisait au temps des anciens Stages coachs publics, représentait la vraie tradition du coaching et comme ils le disaient, vraiment down the road.

Ce furent ces mêmes passionnés qui mirent sur pied le Road coaching, dans les années 1860.

Tom Ryder

Stage coach

NB : Déjà en 1837, l’expression "Down the road" était employée comme titre d’un ouvrage de Birch Reynardson. Arba

 
On the Web
Dog Driving
This web site is about driving dogs with sulkies. At the bottom of the main web page is a movie of Darlette driving her dog.
First part
Queen Victoria ’s coronation
Her Highness Princess Drina
Monday 23 June 2008
by Chantal
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The United Kingdom from 1819 to 1837

Alexandrina Victoria of Kent was born at Kensington Palace, London on 24th may 1819.

Her father was Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, fourth son of George III.

Victoria par Sully

Duc de Kent

Her mother was the Princess Victoria of Saxe-Cobourg-Saalfeld.

Her godfather was the Emperor of Russia, Alexander I, in whose honour she received her first name.

In 1836, when she was just seventeen, Princess Victoria met her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Prince Albert was Victoria’s first cousin ; his father was her mother’s brother, Ernst.

Alexander I of Russia anonymous

Prince Albert by J. Partridge 1840

On 28th june 1837, Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland and Ireland).

Her coronation took place on June 28th, 1838 in the Abbey of Westminster.

For the 170th birthday of Drina’s coronation , a panoramic view of the procession will be published on Jbwhips.com from June 28th, 2008.

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