The lady with the frying pan! July 20, 2015. The Motor Transport Section set up shop on 3 August 1915 in Upper Berkeley Street, London, providing squads of 22 women led by a Head Driver, with 10 drivers, and probationers and garage washers. The pay was 35 shillings per week, and 5d per hour overtime! In 1916, this section and Military Cookery came under direct command of the Army. Lady Londonderry used all her .

Continuing on from earlier posts about the conservation work we undertook on the Reception of an Embassy tapestry from Powis Castle here is the fourth in a series of bulletins we sent to the property. This bulletin dates from June 2014. All the new warps inserted across the long vertical cut which runs the full height of the tapestry.