Statue by Grinling Gibbons of Charles 11, founder of the Royal Hospital IT IS OFTEN said that the nearer you are to something the less likely you are to visit…
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October 2015
A last look at a very special garden THE GARDEN MUSEUM and its amazing café – my favourite place in the whole of London to have a quiet lunch –…
The Abbey seen from the shadowy garden When Francis Bacon wrote: “God almighty first planted a garden” it was in 1627 some 600 years after the creation of the nearest…
OVER AT LAST. A few days ago I came to the end of my self-imposed retirement task to walk from Trafalgar Square to Margate – without crossing a road. The…