27 MAY 1955, page 13

Country Life 13y Ian Niall

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Cottage To Let 'it Wasn't Just That The Place Was

runnin' with damp,' I heard the gossip say, 'but when they opened the cupboards the mould and cobwebs wafted about like ghosts. Nobody wouldn't've kept a dog in it, an' that......

Jai Alai

By FRANK LITTLER V ' EINTE, colorados! Veinte, colorados!' It was midnight in the Fronton Novedades, Barcelona's major pelota court. The shout came from a white-coated book-......

Fly Menace Qne Of The Disappointments Suffered By The...

gardener is when the cabbage, onion or carrot flies attack his young plants. Infected plants should be put on the bonfire immed- iately. BHC (benzine hexachloride) dust is......

The Other Day, While Going Through A Small Copse Of

hazel, thorn and holly, my attention was drawn to a nest from which protruded a wisp of a tail. It looked like the tail of a vole. It could have been the tail of a weasel. The......

City And Suburban

BY JOHN BETJEMAN cancelled all my engagements and gave myself a Church for rebuilding it. It consists of three old streets which wind to the waterside, with narrow alleys......