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Peckforton Castle, Cheshire, seriously damaged in arson attack
Peckforton Castle, Cheshire (Image: the pepper tree / flickr) In the early hours of Sunday (19 June 2011) a serious fire broke out in the Drawing Room of grade-I listed Peckforton Castle and has gutte… more →
The Country Seat
Hestercombe 18th C Landscape Garden
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wrote 5 days ago: Blog friends, have I taken you to Hestercombe before? Hestercombe is a very special place in that th … more →
No. 578: Page Street, SW1
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wrote 1 week ago: Edric House, Page Street, London, SW1. Photo © Roger Dean 2011 Whitehall The Street that Shaped a Na … more →
Howth Castle ~ Re-Visited
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Certain places are like ante-rooms in our lives; places where we wait in a heightened sense of aware … more →
England Trip: Hestercombe
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wrote 1 month ago: England Trip: Hestercombe, a set on Flickr. Continuing my series on last years trip to England with … more →
Castle Drogo
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wrote 2 months ago: Sunshine helps, but Dartmoor is a beautiful place, whatever the weather. Today, spinning along the l … more →
Commonwealth War Graves
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wrote 2 months ago: The route to Le Touquet took us towards the old fishing town of Étaples on the river Canche and just … more →
St Peter's Square, Manchester
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Of Arches and Inspirations
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wrote 2 months ago: Did you know that the India Gate in Delhi was inspired by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris? Most of you … more →
Favorite Places - London Historians' Mike Paterson on war memorials in London...
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wrote 6 months ago: In a special Favorite Places to mark Remembrance Day, Mike Paterson, director of London Historians, … more →
Peckforton Castle, Cheshire, seriously damaged in arson attack
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wrote 11 months ago: Peckforton Castle, Cheshire (Image: the pepper tree / flickr) In the early hours of Sunday (19 June … more →
Concluding The Country House Revealed
wrote 11 months ago: Dan Cruickshank’s The Country House Revealed finally came to a conclusion this Tuesd … more →
The Baronial Country House; Castle Drogo and Sir Edwin Lutyens
wrote 11 months ago: I read about Castle Drogo, Devon a few times as a student of art history, but that was a l … more →
The Country House Revealed – Marsh Court, Hampshire
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wrote 11 months ago: Marsh Court, Hampshire (Image: Country Life Picture Library) As with artists, some architects start … more →
A Life in a Year - 29th March, Commonwealth War Graves
wrote 1 year ago: The route to Le Touquet took us towards the old fishing town of Étaples on the river Canche and just … more →
Castle Drogo - a 20th Century granite masterpiece. Shame about the visitor centre....
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wrote 1 year ago: On Sunday I went to Castle Drogo, which is just a few miles further on from Exeter in the SW of Engl … more →
Remembrance Day
wrote 1 year ago: It’s Remembrance Day and all across the UK – and around the world – people are pau … more →
For those who like their houses with pedigree: Plumpton Place, Sussex
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wrote 1 year ago: Plumpton Place, Sussex (Image: Knight Frank) One of the greatest of the UK’s country house arc … more →
A dot on the horizon
wrote 1 year ago: PHOTO: Amy Rippe If you stand in the Philip Johnson Glass House and look westward out over the care … more →
Castle Drogo under seige - from rain
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wrote 2 years ago: Castle Drogo, Devon (Image: wikipedia) The last castle to be built in the UK, Castle Drogo, occupies … more →
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