24-675: Robin was a British weekly children's magazine published from 1953 to 1969, originally by Hulton Press . Robin was billed as "companion to Eagle , Girl , and Swift " and aimed at younger readers and pre-readers. Both the weeklies and annuals were originally edited by Marcus Morris , but by 1962 Clifford Makins had become editor. Artists who worked on Robin included Sabine Schweitzer, Jennetta Vise , Basil Reynolds, Reg Foster, and Robert Williams. In 1959–1960, Odhams Press acquired Hulton Press , renaming it Longacre Press , thus taking over publication of Eagle , Girl , Swift , and Robin . In 1960 Cecil Harmsworth King , chairman of
48-472: A card featuring a robin and the child's name and enrolment number. This children's magazine article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . This UK comics –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hulton Press Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (29 November 1906 – 8 October 1988)
72-556: A degree. Hulton founded the Hulton Press in 1937, buying Farmers' Weekly . The Hulton Press went on to publish Leader Magazine , Lilliput and the Picture Post , as well as the children's comics Eagle , Girl , Robin , and Swift . During World War II , Hulton was one of the members of the 1941 Committee , a group of British politicians, writers and other people of influence not generally involved with
96-591: A political party but who came together in 1941 to press for more efficient production to enhance the war effort. Hulton helped fund the Home Guard training school at Osterley Park , organising a private supply of weapons from the United States. Though he had stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative candidate at Leek in 1929 , his 1943 book The New Age supported a mixed welfare-state economy and he welcomed Attlee's 1945 government . Hulton discontinued
120-472: A subsidiary of IPC. Associated annuals were also produced, the first dated 1954, until at least the ninth in 1962. In 1969 Robin was merged into Playhour . In addition to comic strips, other features included games and puzzles, stories in prose both fictional and true life, poems, colouring-in, and craft projects. The magazine also had a "Robin Birthday Club" which the reader could join, with
144-426: Is highly unusual, and it differs greatly in style from the original construction. One side is left almost open and is spanned by an Ionic pedimented screen, which is approached by a broad flight of steps and leads to a central courtyard, which is at piano nobile level. Adam's neoclassical interiors are among his most notable sequences of rooms. Horace Walpole described the drawing room as "worthy of Eve before
168-722: The Daily Mirror newspaper, made an approach to Odhams on behalf of Fleetway Publications (formerly the Amalgamated Press ). Odhams' board found this too attractive to refuse and, in 1961, Odhams was taken over by Fleetway. In 1963 its holdings were amalgamated with those of the George Newnes Ltd , Fleetway, and others, to form the International Publishing Corporation (known as IPC). Between 1964 and 1968 Odhams operated as
192-678: The Home Guard ) when the 9th Earl, a friend of publisher Sir Edward Hulton , allowed writer and military journalist Captain Tom Wintringham to establish the first Home Guard training school (which Hulton sponsored) at the park in May–June 1940. It included teaching the theory and practice of modern mechanical warfare, guerilla-warfare techniques and street-fighting techniques, making use of some estate workers' houses that had been scheduled for demolition. Painter Roland Penrose taught camouflaging here, an extension of work he had developed with
216-589: The Picture Post in 1957 and sold the Hulton Press to Odhams two years later. He was knighted for services to journalism in 1957. The photographic archive of Picture Post became an important historical documentary resource. It was set up by Hulton as a semi-independent operation, officially incorporated as the Hulton Press Library in 1947. It was bought by the BBC in 1958 and incorporated into
240-780: The Radio Times photo archive, which was then sold to Brian Deutsch in 1988. In 1996 the Hulton Picture Collection was bought for £8.6m by Getty Images , who has retained the Hulton Archive as a featured resource within its large holdings. Hulton was married twice, first to Kira Goudime-Levkovitsch in 1927, and then later in 1946 to Princess Nika Yourievitch . Together Yourievitch and Hulton had two sons and one daughter, named Edward Alexander Sergius Hulton, Cosmo Philip Paul Hulton and Elizabeth Frances Helen Hulton. The marriage between Yourievitch and Hulton
264-497: The estate passed into the Villiers family . In 1819, George Villiers changed his surname to Child Villiers. George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey , opened Osterley to the public in 1939 after having received many requests from people wishing to see its historic interior. He justified his decision by saying that it was "sufficient answer that he did not live in it and that many others wished to see it". Some 12,000 people visited
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#1732797859813288-756: The fall ". The rooms are characterised by elaborate but restrained plasterwork, rich, highly varied colour schemes, and a degree of coordination between decor and furnishings unusual in English neoclassical interiors. Notable rooms include the entrance hall, which has large semi-circular alcoves at each end, and the Etruscan dressing room, which Adam said was inspired by the " Etruscan " vases (as they were then regarded, now recognised as Greek ) in Sir William Hamilton's collection , illustrations of which had recently been published. Adam also designed some of
312-561: The founder of the Royal Exchange , also bought the neighbouring Manor of Boston in 1572. During the late 17th century, the estate was owned by Nicholas Barbon , a developer who mortgaged it to Child's Bank and then died in debt around 1698. As a result of a mortgage default, by the early 1710s, the estate came into the ownership of Sir Francis Child , the founder of Child's Bank. In 1761, Sir Francis's grandsons, Francis and Robert , employed Scottish architect Robert Adam (who
336-414: The furniture, including the opulent domed state bed, which is still in the house. Robert Child's only daughter, Sarah , married John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland , in 1782. When Child died two months later, his will placed his vast holdings, including Osterley, in trust for any second-to-be born grandchild. This proved to be Lady Sarah Fane , who was born in 1785. Child's will kept his property out of
360-566: The hands of John Fane, his son-in-law. Under the doctrine of coverture then in force, if Child had given his daughter more than a life interest in any property, Fane would have had control of it. Fane had eloped with Child's daughter to Gretna Green , as Child had not consented to the marriage. Child had wished his daughter to marry someone willing to take on the Child surname and ensure its continuation. Child's eventual heiress, Lady Sarah Fane, married George Villiers in 1804 and, having children,
384-987: The house and its park to the National Trust . The furniture was sold to the Victoria & Albert Museum . In 1947, Lord Jersey moved to the island of Jersey , taking with him many pictures from the collection at Osterley. Some were destroyed in a warehouse fire on the island soon after. Lord Jersey assisted the Ministry of Works and the V&;A in their restoration of the house to its present late-18th-century state. The National Trust took charge of Osterley in 1991. The house has enjoyed loans and gifts from Lord Jersey, including items of silver, porcelain, furniture and miniatures. The trust commissioned portraits of Lord Jersey and his wife by Howard J. Morgan , which hang upstairs. In 2014, William Villiers, 10th Earl of Jersey ,
408-505: The house during its first month of opening. Villiers staged a series of exhibitions of artworks by living artists in the top-floor rooms to contrast with the 18th-century interiors on the ground floor. He also planned to create an arboretum in the grounds, although that never came to fruition. The grounds of Osterley Park were used for the training of the first members of the Local Defence Volunteers (forerunners of
432-552: The paintbrush in avant-garde paintings to protect the modesty of his lover, Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller (married to Aziz E. Bey). Maj. Wilfred Vernon taught the art of mixing home-made explosives, and his explosives store can still be seen at the rear of the house, while Canadian Bert "Yank" Levy , who had served under Wintringham in the Spanish Civil War , taught knife fighting and hand-to-hand combat . Despite winning world fame in newsreels and newspaper articles around
456-417: The present Earl, arranged a ten-year loan to Osterley of portraits of the Child family. The pictures that are part of the loan include Allan Ramsay 's portrait of Francis Child (1758), and George Romney 's portrait of Francis's brother, Robert . The house and small formal gardens are open to the public. They account for 30,000 paying visitors per year. Many hundreds of thousands of visitors per year walk
480-660: The world (particularly in the US), the school was disapproved of by the War Office and Winston Churchill , and it was taken over in September 1940. Closed in 1941, its staff and courses were reallocated to other newly opened War Office -approved Home Guard schools. After the Second World War, Lord Jersey approached Middlesex County Council , which had shown interest in buying the estate, but eventually decided to give
504-513: Was a British magazine publisher and writer. Hulton was born to Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet , a newspaper publisher and racehorse owner originally from Manchester, and his second wife, music hall artist, actress and singer Millicent Warris, born Fanny Elizabeth Warriss or Wariss, also known by the stage name Millie Lindon. Educated at Harrow School , Hulton went up to Brasenose College, Oxford , in 1925 but left in December 1926 without
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#1732797859813528-516: Was dissolved in 1966, though the two lived together again for the last nine years of Hulton's life before he died on 8 October 1988. Osterley Park Osterley Park is a Georgian country estate in west London , which straddles the London boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow . Originally dating from the 1570s, the estate contains a number of Grade I and II listed buildings , with the park listed as Grade II*. The main building (Osterley House)
552-464: Was just emerging as one of the most fashionable architects in Britain) to remodel the house. When Francis Child died in 1763, the project was taken up by his brother and heir, Robert Child, for whom the interiors were created. The house is of red brick with white stone details and is approximately square, with turrets in the four corners. Adam's design, which incorporates some of the earlier structure,
576-484: Was remodelled by Robert Adam between 1761 and 1765. The National Trust took charge of Osterley in 1991, and the house and park are open to visitors. The original building on this site was a manor house built in the 1570s for banker Sir Thomas Gresham , who purchased the manor of Osterley in 1562. The "faire and stately brick house" was completed in 1576. It is known that Queen Elizabeth I visited. The stable block from that period remains at Osterley Park. Gresham,
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