21 OCTOBER 1955, page 13

City And Suburban

BY JOHN BETJEMAN T HERE are certain names which loom large in our lives in London, which we read more often than even that of Gilbert Harding, but with which no personality is......

Nelson Did

BY JOHN HILLS / T is just 150 years since Nelson conquered and died at Trafalgar, and there are still hundreds of Englishmen ready to echo Browning's 'Give me of Nelson only a......

Brecknoc K Last Week 1 Visited What Must Be The

nearest wholly un- spoiled country to London. This was the remote Welsh county of Brecknock, a kingdom in itself, of richly wooded valleys surrounded by mountains, and with the......