21 JANUARY 1955, page 13

Playhouses In Peril

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Country Life Kt By Ian Niall I 0 ,4 Oking Over The

list of birds put outside the law in the simplification of the Protection of Birds Act, 1954, which came into force at the beginning of December, I was pleased to find, when all......

Cold Comfort We Have All Vastly Different Ideas Of What

enjoyment and physical pleasure are. Yesterday, on the way 'over the tops.' as the moorland plain is called, I encountered two sportsmen with guns under their arms and hands......

By John Betjeman T He Decision Of The Paddington Borough...

to ignore the protests of the people it represents is nothing new in local politics. But its further decision to disregard the advice it sought from the Royal Fine Art......

Gibbets And Lunch Baskets Architecturally It Is The...

of Brighton, the best-lit borough in the country, where the Corporation has taken care to produce main-road lighting which in day- time is not an offence to the eye. Paddington,......

Colcutt's Tower Always Seemed To Me, Along With. St. Paul's

and the Houses of Parliament, one of the three great additions to the London skyline.......

Sorry, No Centipedes I Went Into An Enterprising London Pet

shop last week where they sell baby crocodiles. But this is not the season for buying crocodiles. They become available in April and May, as do snakes. So I asked instead for a......

Preparing For Cuttings Chrysanthemums From Which Cuttings...

taken should by now have been cut back to within a few inches of the ground. The cuttings are taken just below soil level, trimmed to a point below a node and treated with......