Talk:Walter Powell (politician)
Latest comment: 7 years ago by JDAWiseman in topic Wine auction
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Are you sure? edit
"[From] Bath ... The balloon was carried over Somerset to Exeter and then into Dorset. The crew tried to descend near Bridport" This seems pretty odd to me - the ballooon was travelling in a south-westerly direction as far as Exeter, and then goes almost due eastwards to Bridport? Really?? The meterological conditions to have caused a sudden 135 degree switch in wind direction from southwestwards to eastwards seems highly unlikely. 86.133.211.42 (talk) 16:29, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Wine auction edit
Not worthy of comment in the main article, but perhaps of interest to a passing researcher, might be an auction, by Messrs Christie, Manson & Woods, on 20 June 1883
- Of The Cellar Of Fine Wines of Thomas Powell, Esq., Deceased, late of Coldra, Monmouthshire; and of the late Walter Powell, Esq., M.P.; Comprising
- 30 Dozens of Sherry, Pale Bristol Milk, and Vino de Pasto, bottled in 1869; 230 Dozens of Port, of the Vintages of 1847, 1851, 1858, 1861, and 1863; 9 Dozens of Choice Old Madeira; 185 Dozen Bottles and 50 Dozen Magnums of Claret, Chateau Lafite of 1862 and 1865, Chateau Margaux of 1870, Chateau Mouton-Rothschild of 1865 and 1870, Chateau Leoville-Barton of 1864, 1870, 1874, and 1878, Chateau Leoville-Lascazes of 1864, Chateau Palmer of 1870 and Chateau Latour-Carnet of 1862;
- The whole of the Wines (excepting the 1862 and 1865 Clarets and Madeira, Imported by the late Mr Thomas Powell), were supplied by Messrs. John Harvey and Sons of Bristol
(My picture #19074.) JDAWiseman (talk) 15:53, 17 April 2017 (UTC)