Herald - Issue 410

5th August 2021 • The HERALD • Page 13 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES v Call for a FREE Quotation 023 8084 0257 www.gasworks.co.uk Visit our showroom at 299 Shirley Road, Southampton SO15 3HU Fireplaces and Surrounds Gas and Electric Fires Full Installation Service Service and Maintenance 0238001 4269 SP DECORATING Painting & Decorating Specialist Simon Perks Tel: 07889 091420 Email: simonperks@rocketmail.com • Interior & Exteriors • Wallpaper Hanging • Prompt & Reliable Service • Free Quotations & Expert Advice • Fully Insured Approved by Trading Standards Send your local news to The Editor, The Herald, 2 High Street, Hythe SO45 6AH the Duke of Teck, honoured Madame Tussaud and Sons’ with a visit. Her Royal Highness expressed herself pleased with the recently modelled gures of the Abbe List and the Duchess of Edinburgh. Further the Princess again admired the gure of Dinah Kitcher, which in the year 1870, was modelled at her Royal highness’s express command by Mr Joseph Tussaud, and exhibited at the Bazaar at Hampton Court Palace. It appears that Dinah Kitcher became the ‘face’ of the campaign for donations. e Surrey Comet newspaper, on 26 June 1869, stated that ‘ Her wax model was so lifelike that from the end of the Hall in Hampton Court Palace it was impossible to notice that the object was not alive. The expression on the features, had just that quiet resigned look that is seen upon the aged who live in peace and contentment’. e right hand of the gure rested on a box for contributions, and the le hand rested on a stick. Dinah’s death was tragic. She died on 27th December 1870 agonisingly, aged 86, at e Royal Cambridge Asylum, as a result of her bed clothes catching re. She su ered for nine hours until she eventually passed away. Dinah is buried at All Saints Church, Kingston- upon ames. My thanks to George Elliott and family alerting me to this story and their kind permission to publish it. advertisement appeared in a newspaper stating ‘ Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition - on view, a portrait model of Dinah Kitcher, modelled by command of H.R.H. Princess Mary of Teck for the Grand Bazaar, Hampton Court Palace. Admission, 1s: children under 10, 6d. Open from 10a.m. till 10 p.m.’ In 1886, 24th October, Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, London, reported that ‘on Wednesday the Princess Mary of Cambridge with ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, FAWLEY Continued from page 12