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SHEEP, SHEPHERDS AND SHEEPDOGS: Some Thoughts on Sheep Farming and Shepherding in Wales and Southern England

... Sheep Farming and Shepherding in Wales and Southern England By BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD I DO not know what the official figures are, but I feel sure that there are many more sheep in the south of England to-day than there were twenty, or even ten, years ago ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1925 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

CARLISLE--CITY OF THE BORDER

... was used by no fewer than seven railway companies and the trains of these companies, the engines and the coaches, were of different colours. Standing on Carlisle station then you had the feeling that you were at the very hub of the railway world, and ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1978 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

IS THE GOLF BALL EXPENSIVE ?

... Bonallack, who won the Worplesdon Foursomes, are said to be the first husband- and-wife partnership of a Walker Cup player and Curtis Cup representative. side at various points of the compass In each case the balls, which bore the standard dimple marking ...

The Venerable Mead

... be extracted by centrifugal force from a man-made comb, which can be used again. To understand why mead, or j fermented honey, is an even older j drink than wine, picture the world i in prehistoric times. Imagine an earth with no dwellings, no land tilled ...

A London Newsletter

... small planet in orbit round the sun. Neither of these headline events need drive us to the conviction that all 's lost for England, though both of them might usefully induce us to fall down in humble prayer prayer for a right judgment in all things and a ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2726 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... me as a mistake that it attacks us usually after Christmas and two months of fogs and darkness, and waits to show its hand until the days lengthen and the first flowers and blossoms appear on the earth. It always takes us by surprise and ill-prepared, just ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3080 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY--1959: Problems in Rebuilding the English and Welsh Sides; Improved Scottish Players; ..

... one judges from the evidence of the various trials, an even more tantalising task than usual. This applies particularly to England, who, now that they have cut the knot with Eric Evans, their highly successful leader of the past two seasons, are engaged ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2175 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

BURNS--THE MOST A MAN: Through the Robert Burns Country; The Bicentenary of the Poet on January 25; ..

... about Robert Burns: or, rather, about Scotsmen. Robert Burns is-- I use the present tense deliberately because great poets are immortal a poet of genius. As such he belongs to the world, and not simply to Scotland. He is a lyric poet of the first rank: ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1982 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

New in Knightsbridge

... Walshford in York shire, three miles north of Wetherby on the Great North Road, long a gastronomic shrine in that part of the world I remember it from my last visit, nearly two years ago, as a small picturesque inn providing first-class cuisine and wine at ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 605 | Page: 56 | Tags: Photographs 

BACK ON THE MIDDLE EAST TREADMILL

... me minimal. b a World Affairs the CHIEF NEGOTIATORS: Sir Denis Rickett, leader of the British delegation, shakes hands with Mr. Abdel el Kaissouny in Cairo. The start of their talks over Suez claims was described by both sides as useful. PAVING THE WAY ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1755 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

The rough, tough road to Monte Carlo

... any chains and, unlike chains, could be safely used at speec s up to 80 m.p.h. The drivers, Guy Monraisse and Jacqut s Feret, both live in the Auvergne where tbe critical final test was run, and were used to driving on ice and snow all winter. They arrived ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1236 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs