3-074-855 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Wynyard Park, seat of the Marquis of Londonderry, visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1883. Engravings from photographs by Mr. Paul Stabler, of Sunderland. 'Wynyard Park, near Stockton-on-Tees, a stately mansion beautifully placed on the banks of the river...[was] visited this week by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. They arrived on Monday afternoon, to stay until Friday, and their special train was met, at Thorpe Thewes, by the Marquis of Londonderry and Viscount Castlereagh, by whom they were escorted to their carriage. On leaving the station the carriages proceeded down the railway company's road to the main highway, along which they drove, entering Wynyard Park by the golden gate shortly before five o'clock. There are fifteen acres of covert in the park, and the stock of pheasants is said to be very large. Among the party invited to Wynyard are Lord and Lady Castlereagh, Lord Henry Vane Tempest, Lord Herbert Vane Tempest, Lady Aline Vane Tempest, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Count Herbert Von Bismarck, Lord and Lady Lonsdale, Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Ribblesdale, the Earl of Fife, and Colonel the Hon. O. Montague'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.