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Drivers and team members stand by the cars

Calcott 2-seater car parked outside a farm gate

Scene from Quality Street

Mining at Messines Ridge

Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman mb-height 5750 Inscribed below: 'Soust pinxGathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman, 1881. Hardy (1814 1906) first entered Parliament as a Conservative member for Leominster in 1856. In 1865 he enjoyed the distinction of defeating William Gladstone in winning the parliamentary seat of Oxford. He served in various ministerial posts in Conservative governments between 1866 and his retirement from public life in 1892, at which time he was made an Earl. From Men of Mark: a