Black Diamonds (66 page)

31. The Cadeby colliery disaster created sixty-one widows and left 132 fatherless children. For many of the women, forced to survive on compensation payments of little more than 5 shillings per week, visits to the pawnshop became routine

32. The house party staying at Wentworth during the King and Queen’s visit in July 1912

33. The Wentworth Battery, RHA, in training in Wentworth Park in the summer of 1914

34. Pyrotechnic portraits of Billy and Maud, Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam, at the party to celebrate the christening of their son Peter, February 1911

35. The pony drivers from Billy’s collieries at Elsecar and New Stubbin playing polo on the lawn in front of Wentworth House during the General Strike, 1926

36. Peter, Lord Milton, aged four, is introduced to a member of the household staff at Wentworth

37. Peter, and his mother, Maud, at a garden party held in the grounds of Wentworth House to raise funds for the families of local soldiers fighting in the First World War

38. Peter, aged two, on his first hunter

39. Debutante Lady Barbara Ricardo (née Montagu-Stuart-Wortley), with her grandmother, Maud, Countess Fitzwilliam (right), and her mother, Elfrida, Countess of Wharncliffe (left), following her presentation at Court, 1938

40. Maud, Countess Fitzwilliam, and Peter, taken shortly after his twenty-first birthday

41. Peter and Olive ‘Obby’ Fitzwilliam at their wedding in Dublin Cathedral, April 1933

42. Billy relaxes on the Riviera, 1938

43. Peter in 1944