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Country Life

By IAN NIALL W HEN I passed W.'s farm yesterday it was already dark. A light showed from the shippon and there was a gleam behind the curtains of the house. It all looked very......

Starling Assemblies Writing About The Assembling Of...

going to roost, a reader who lives in Hampshire remarks : 'Close I to our garden there are several large trees, bare of leaves, to which the starlings come before it gets dark.......

Bob Has More Stories Of This Countryside Than Anyone I

know. Last week, when he was 'on the sick,' I met him on the road and he pointed out to me a man he said was the biggest rogue he had ever encountered, and went on : 'He don't......

City And Suburban

B y JOHN BETJEMAN FAMOUS English hotel is to be destroyed this spring. It is the Royal George at Rugby, whose thoughtful Classic facade gives such character to this Midland mar......