A group of ten framed photographs relating to Aintree and the Grand National, i) a b&w portrait of Port Blair being saddled; ii) a colour image of the
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A group of ten framed photographs relating to Aintree and the Grand National, i) a b&w portrait of Port Blair being saddled; ii) a colour image of the Mounted Police at the 1970 Grand National; iii) undated double-mounted b&w photographs titled 'A GLIMPSE OF THE CROWDS FROM TATTS AND AINTREE' and FROM TATTERSALLS ROOF; iv) a photograph titled TIM DURANT, 68, RIDING IN THE 1968 GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE; v) a photograph titled 1968, 50 YEARS BETWEEN RIDERS, MR TIM DURANT AGED 67, MR N THORNE, AGED 17; vi) double-mounted b&w photographs featuring the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret titled ROYALTY AT AINTREE MARCH 1950 and MORNING INSPECTION OF THE NATIONAL FENCES; vii) a b&w photograph of George Stevens's tombstone (died 1871) mounted above a photograph of the jockey inscribed GEORGE STEVENS, WON THE GRAND NATIONAL FIVE TIMES AND COMPLETED THE COURSE NO LESS THAN 13 TIMES WITHOUT A FALL; viii) a photo of a print featuring the 1839 Grand National; ix) a photo of the famous J.F. Herring painting 'Steeplechase Cracks'; x) a photo of the Topham shire horse 'Old Black Prince'