7 OCTOBER 1955, page 15

City And Suburban

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I WISH I were a director, or at an rate an influential ` employee, of the firm of Patmacs, who own, among other attractive premises, the Tabard Inn, Bedford......

Rus In Urge Have You Ever Noticed How Very Few

trains there are on the London undergrounds, the District and Inner Circle lines in particular, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays? No doubt an official of the London Passenger......

The Romance Of The Thames

I stood last Sunday afternoon in the warm October sunlight with a beautiful girl beside me on Battersea Bridge. The high tide was just ebbing out, and as we looked down into the......