3-074-801 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lawn Meet of the West Norfolk Hounds at Sandringham, 1883. '1. Entrance to the Park. 2. The Princess Riding to Cover. 3. The Lawn. 4. Principal Entrance of Sandringham House. Half a century or more ago fox-hunting in Norfolk seemed to have quite died out, or fallen from the favour of local squires and yeomen...The sport owes its revival to Sir Jacob Astley...The Prince of Wales told his brother sportsmen assembled at Sandringham, on Saturday last, that notwithstanding the great increase of pheasant preservation in Norfolk, during the twenty-one years of his residence among them, "they have never found more foxes than now." This, no doubt, is greatly due to the popularity of Mr. Anthony Hamond, in whose honour the gathering at Sandringham was held...The birthday of a Princess who has always shown a lively interest in the favourite pursuits of English men and women could not have been celebrated in a more thoroughly English fashion than by this gathering of fox-hunters on the lawn and within the halls of Sandringham. Her Royal Highness [Princess Alexandra] rode with the Prince of Wales, Princess Louise, and many guests, to follow the hounds that day. "The Lawn Meet at Sandringham" is illustrated by four Sketches in this Number of our Journal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.