At opposite corners of London’s Hampstead Heath, one to the south-west and the other to the north-east, two buildings with white exteriors, but little else in common, evoke the Georgian and Regency years. To the south-west of the Heath, just … Continue reading Special Ks: around Hampstead Heath
Six miles south of Derby is a pavilion, incongruous and alone. Swarkestone Pavilion, as it is now known, probably dates from c.1631-2, close to a grand house built six decades earlier for Sir Richard Harpur, a successful lawyer and landowner. … Continue reading The Harpur-Crewe estates
If you’ve visited Sir John Soane’s Museum, you’ll know that the eponymous architect left his home in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, to the nation, via an Act of Parliament. This may seem like the final triumph in a long life … Continue reading The dynasty that never was
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You could say that we had a whale of a time when we returned to Hull for a weekend in June.? Which would give us something in common with Herman Melville, the… Continue reading Back to Hull
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