A root of England's history is leased by an American: Magna Carta Island and its old house taken over by Miss Alberto Bigelow: American authoress, writer of children's books and poems, Miss Alberto Cathorine Bigelow, is the new occupant of Magnum Carta Island, and its old father forbidding early 19th century house, built on the site of a former priory. Once occupied by Sir Patrick Hannon MP, and still containing much old furniture, Miss Bigelow is bringing back the gardens and the fine trees into order. She lives there alone, except for her dogs. From it she gets a fine view through the trees of the river flowing down from Windsor to Staines. Over it are the ru~neymade Meadows, preserved, as is the Island by the National Trust and Bucks County Council. In the house, with its leaded lights, is a priests hole forsix men, and a Ma~na Carta Room with facsimiles of the Charter which gave to Englishmen rights which have been jealously preserved down the centuries and which have served as the basis for modern democracies abroad. The room marks, according to ons story, the exact spot where the King was made to sign in 1215 AD. The Island and its house has an air of loneliness about it. Visitors are not encouraged, and it has seldom been photographed. The woman on Magna Carta Island: Miss Alberto Bigelow: Walking from the front door of the old house, America authoress, Miss Bigalow finds plenty of historic matter on which to ponder dor it was probably on this very acre that King John was forced to grant to his subjects seven centuries ago the fundamental freedom which they have ever since cherished, and which have served as a basis of democracy here and overseas.
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Photo is dated --0000.
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