15 APRIL 1955, page 15

Fishing Stories Are Always Interesting To Me And Two Fisher-

man friends with whom I was talking last week mentioned that they had each caught birds. One did so while spinning a well-known salmon river. His spinner was taken by a swan.......

City And Suburban

BY JOHN BETJEMAN towers looks far lovelier and more peaceful now. I stood by the Strawberry-Hill-Gothic conduit in the Market Place and for the first time obtained an......

Convolvulus Nuisance

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I F Farmers Are Ever Sorry For Themselves They Have Good

reason to be when land that once grew crops ceases to do so. This rarely happens through bad husbandry and only very occasionally through a change in natural conditions, but it......

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Gipsy Children

While their parents and elder brothers and,sisters were going round the doors with their baskets of artificial timers and clothes pegs and appeals for old iron and rags. the......