7 SEPTEMBER 1956, page 11

Jack Went That Way By D. W. Brogan 've Thought

it over and I really think that the best thing I you can do is to take the train.' My friend was regretful, apologetic at making such an archaic suggestion, but isolated in his......

The Hand Of Decimus

Mr. Francis Thompson, the librarian at Chatsworth, has discovered that the great conservatory there was designed by Decimus Burton, down to the minutest detail, for the signed......

City And Suburban

BY JOHN BETJEMAN H IDDEN somewhere, deep in the Ministry of Works, is the Bailiff of the Royal Parks. I do not like to think of him in that dreary building, Lambeth Bridge......

Railway Sandwich-de-lux 1 E A Friend And I Ordered Two...

each and coffee for two in the King's Cross Hotel, London, which is run by British Railways. The bill was 15s. Is this one of the ways by which the unlucky Sir Brian Robertson......