The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive

1899

January Published 28 A great lion—symbol of the Percy family, Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland— commissioned in 1773 from the sculptor John Cheere, presides over the gates designed by Robert Adam for Syon House, Middlesex. A boy, probably a gardener, underlines the scale of this monumental screen with its multiple iron cradles for lamps.

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