31 AUGUST 1951, page 13

You Have Been Warned

Notice outside a charming little East Devon village shop: "Owing to ill - health, this shop is closed on. Tuesday mornings, also on Friday mornings. Tradesmen and goodi delivery......

Country Life

I REACHED East Devon, which I used to know only in patches, by way of Dorset, which is pretty familiar to me. What 1 did know of the former was confined to the epic coastline ;......

In The Garden

The gardener's headache is now the ripening of his plums. No difficulty about my cherry-plum and greengage trees: eat and give away and leave the rest to the wasps. But I have......

Blackberry Camp The Best View I Had Was From Blackberry

Camp between the Valleys of the Axe and the Otter, a Dumnonian Iron Age citadel with single fosse and ramp in a sparse coppice outlying dense woodland and with so charmed an......

Art

NEARLY all our " art," wrote Roger Fry, is made, bought and sold merely for its value as an indication of social 'status. Two new Festival exhibitions have cast a fiendish eye......

The East Devon Scene

I speak of the interior to which thereafter I confined my journeys. What I found most satisfactory about it was the extent and inviolability of its mixed woodlands whose timber......

Mu S Ic The Autumn Season At Sadler's Wells Opened On August

20th and caught a large and appreciative audience, still holiday-minded and very well suited by Wolf-Ferrari's School for Fathers. The temper of this music and the sort of......

Vernacular Architecture _

Village and small town building tradition is as plain as the forms and contours of the countryside, the mode being rectangular houses and cottages of plastir stucco over brick......