1 APRIL 1995, page 20

Meeting One Of History's Footnotes

Simon Courtauld shares a drink with Alan Walker, Lord Curzon's cipher clerk, and still going strong at 100 IT WAS 11 o'clock in the morning, we were sitting in a converted......

Over Their Dead Bodies

Rural North Yorkshire is horrified about a proposed new cemetery; and there is a faint smell of racism, reports Laurence Baron Terrington IT IS HARD to imagine a more pleasant......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE GALE which swept over England on Sunday was of quite unusual vio- lence. During the height of the storm, the leaden roof of the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall was rolled up......