21 JUNE 1957, page 13

The Ribbon Lengthens

Two of the most attractive towns in the smith are Rye and Winchelsea. On the road to the second from the first you pass on your left about half a mile of ribbon development......

I Have Just Returned From A Motor Tour Of Umbria,

the Republic of San Marino, Ravenna, Perugia and Siena, going down white roads where ox-carts creak between the poplars, where the hills are like waves with surf on their......

Q On Actually Writing

By .STRIX T AM writing. I Looking over my shoulder, the ghost of my long-dead governess compliments itself on recog- nising the vestiges of the pothooks she taught me to......

City And Suburban

By JOHN BETJEMAN AN old and distinguished Oxford Don I knew, who is now with God, used to say that if any wsthetic matters connected with building or tree- planting or......