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15-524: The piece was commissioned by Lord Dulverton in 1968 and made by the Royal School of Needlework from designs by artist Sandra Lawrence . In a speech delivered on 6 June 1978 Lord Dulverton described his motivation behind the commission. The Embroidery is a tribute to our Country and Countrymen over the part played in defeating a great evil that sprang upon the Western World. It is not, and

30-404: A committee which included retired senior officers to advise on the project. In preparing her designs Sandra Lawrence studied archive photographs as research. Her subsequent sketches were then submitted to the committee for approval. After approval, she would then paint a colour version to the same size as the planned embroidery panel (2.4x0.9 metres). Then she would then use tracing paper to record

45-714: A fine powder known as pounce . This makes a trail of dots which are joined with a pencil to reveal the design. The embroidery was completed in January 1974. Since 1984 it has been housed in the D-Day Museum (now renamed The D-Day Story ) in Southsea , Portsmouth . The embroidery tells the story of Operation Overlord , which was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. The narrative begins well before

60-571: Is the present holder's only son Hon. Robert Anthony Hamilton Wills (b. 1983) who is working for Capital Collective Limited in the UK. Bristol North (UK Parliament constituency) Bristol North was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election . The seat

75-701: The County of Gloucester , is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1929 for the businessman Sir Gilbert Wills, 2nd Baronet . He was President of the Imperial Tobacco Company and also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Taunton and Weston-super-Mare . The Wills Baronetcy , of Manor Heath in the Parish of Bournemouth in the County of Southampton ,

90-572: The Labour Party fielded candidates and won three times; a Unionist stood once without success; candidates considered Lloyd-George Coalition Liberal , National Liberal and Liberal National (reflecting complex splinter groups of the Liberal Party during the period) stood once apiece and an Independent Liberal who was the MP as a mainstream Liberal since the previous election in 1924 ran against

105-659: The Seine . There are 34 panels which together measure 83 metres (272 feet) in length. The Overlord Embroidery is one of the longest works of its kind in the world, at 10 metres (33 feet) longer than the Bayeux Tapestry , but shorter than the Prestonpans Tapestry . Twenty embroiderers worked for five years to create the embroidery. Battledress khaki and gold braid were appliquéd onto the panels. Lord Dulverton Baron Dulverton , of Batsford in

120-570: The cousin of William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke . In 1966 the Wills family contained the largest number of millionaires in the British Isles, with 14 members leaving fortunes in excess of one million pounds since 1910, totalling £55 million. As of 2014 the titles are held by the first Baron's grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1992. The family seat is Batsford Park , near Batsford , Gloucestershire . The heir apparent

135-600: The invasion, with war-time production and The Blitz . It continues through the entry of the United States into the war, and the planning and preparation of the invasion. The majority of the work covers the crossing of the English Channel by the invasion fleet and the combat once the troops landed on the French coast. The embroidery ends with a scene of British infantry advancing as German troops retreat across

150-412: The local government district of Stapleton. 1918–1950 : The County Borough of Bristol wards of District, St Philip and Jacob North, and Stapleton, and part of Easton ward. Note: * denotes re-elected. General Election 1914–15 : Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914,

165-540: The official party's new candidate in 1929, unsuccessfully. In two of these four instances the splinter arguably centrist Liberal candidate won. The Liberal incumbent Bernays also defected from the main body of his party in 1936 to join the National Liberal (1931) Party despite being re-elected as a candidate of the more established party in 1935. 1885–1918 : The Municipal Borough of Bristol wards of District, St James's, and St Paul's, and part of North ward, and

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180-528: The outlines of all the details. The original paintings from the design stage hang at the Pentagon , Washington D.C. The team from the Royal School of Needlework used the technique called appliqué to bring the designs to life. Then attached to linen using a method known as pricking and pouncing . That is pricking thousands of tiny holes in a tracing paper template, placing them on a panel and applying

195-557: Was created in 1897 for his father Frederick Wills . He was a director of W. D. & H. O. Wills , which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, and also represented Bristol North in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist . A member of the wealthy Bristol tobacco importing Wills family, he was the younger brother of Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Baronet , a half brother of Sir Frank William Wills Kt., and

210-471: Was never intended to be, a tribute to war, but to our people in whom it brought out in adversity so much that is good, determination, ingenuity, fortitude and sacrifice. It focusses upon one historic and explicitly important campaign, to which the world conflict had led and made possible; and the Bayeux Tapestry nearly 900 years before D-Day certainly beckoned it to be made. Lord Dulverton established

225-477: Was one of a small minority spanning the period which never elected a Conservative and Unionist Party candidate. In its early history Bristol North three times elected a Liberal Unionist who was affiliated with the Conservative Party; the latter having declined to field a candidate in those elections and in three others of the eight before World War I . In the eight elections from and including 1918

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