3-043-872 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prince Arthur at the Royal Horticultural Society's Exhibition, Birmingham: The Gardens, 1872. 'Aston Hall Park, Birmingham, during five days of last week, was honoured with the presence of his Royal Highness Prince Arthur. He arrived from London about noon on the Monday, accompanied by the Duke of Teck and attended by Colonel Sir Howard Elphinstone and two equerries...the two Princes, with the Earl and Countess of Bradford and the Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford, came from Castle Bromwich Hall, in close carriages, the weather being rainy, to open the flower show. Five or six pavilions had been erected in the grounds to contain the objects for exhibition...Prince Arthur, giving his arm to Lady Bradford, walked from tent to tent, through a violent shower of rain, and inspected the show with evident pleasure. He then ascended a raised and covered platform, where an address was presented to him by Lord Bradford on behalf of the Birmingham Local Committee of the Horticultural Society's Exhibition. The Prince made a suitable reply, and then declared the Exhibition open...The exhibition...was an entire success, producing a large sum of money, added to the funds of the Royal Horticultural Society'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.