The past in black, white and sepia.
My grandmother is the one near the middle, sidesaddle on the donkey like a small, shaggy camel. The caption of the picture, if there were one, would be 'Haymaking in Bierton,' a ceremonial harvest home... 
Sue and David Gentleman.
The artist David Gentleman and his wife Sue have lived in the same north London house, in the hinterland between Camden Market and Regent's Park, since 1971. I have never seen it untidy, it is...
What to do in Walton-on-the-Naze in Winter.
Have you ever been to Walton on the Naze? Like its sister resort of Clacton on Sea it has a long (790 metre) pier with fairground amusements and fishermen casting lines fruitlessly into the grey-green...
At home in West Dorset, John and Julia de Pauley.
John and Julia de Pauley and their two daughters live in Bridport, a market town next to the west Dorset coast. These photographs were taken on a broiling day towards the end of last summer....
The Nativity comes to Kentish Town (II), Epiphany.
Saturday January 5th. This was the scene at the Church of St. Silas in Kentish Town yesterday evening, where the Christmas Crib was being reordered for the feast of the Epiphany today, when the three...
In Camden Town.
This is the Camden Town desk from which the bible of british taste is published each week. There are many good things about living in NW1, but for years now all my old affection for...
The Nativity comes to Kentish Town, (I).
At All Hallow's Church, Savernake Road, on the south eastern corner of Hampstead Heath, Father David Houlding started the business of decorating his church on Wednesday. Today, Sunday December 23rd, is 'Advent IV,' the fourth...
Portabello interiors.
A tall stuccoed house in west London near the Portobello Road. The present owner has lived there since 1971 when the banister rail running from top to bottom was painted bright green, a colour favoured...
Beautiful Britain ? Roche Rock.
Hundreds of picture have been taken of Roche Rock looking sublime and Romantic, like this. The granite chapel on the outcrop is roofless now, reached by a vertical iron ladder embedded in the side...
Stephen Medcalf’s books.
Just after bonfire night in 1989, Stephen Medcalf, who was tickled by the idea of being photographed at home, wrote to me , 'I do not promise not to tidy it a bit ... a...
