... public after the Second World War and thus to have secured its future, like Chatsworth or W oburn, is an architectural tragedy. Instead, the house has been dogged by repeated misfortune: the premature death in a flying accident in 1948 of its then owner ...

... After the Second World War, races in the big 90ft waterline COUNTRY LIFE SEPTEMBER 15, 1988 KING'S REACH TOWER, ST AM FORD STREET, LONDO SE! 9LS Editor: J•·.NNY GRt, £N> Deputy Editor: 1.t.:.!-tl.ll'. (;t-.DDE..C..-RROWN Associate Editor: ct.tvt: ASt ...

... C before the Second World War. The Bodleian Library's most extraordinary This was £2.835 million, compared with £2.794 million the year before. For a charity with 71,000 members, however, it is a fine achievement to raise nearly million, while WWF's summary ...

... SURREY. General Eisenhower used the cottage during the Second World War colourful herbaceous borders and a long bed of roses, both hybrid tea and shrub, stretches to a wooded area beyond. The pool garden, shaded by a flowering cherry and feathery evergreens ...

... As with so many institutions, the original uses of the hall ceased with the outbreak of the Second World War. Following a long period of decline and dereliction, the hall has just been refurbished as a sales and exhibition centre, serving the world of ...

... (Right) 6---RICHARD TALBOT KELLY AT THE TIME OF HIS SECOND WORLD WAR SERVICE posture I have drawn was one with the erect and spread tail held high out of the water. tionally, yet with the most evocative and faithful impression. His approach to painting ...

... London more permanently at the end of the Second World War. In 1953 a retrospective of his work at the Tate Gallery brought him national recognition and he is now highly regarded. BmTIJH IMP~~IONISM 34 ST. GEO RGE STREET, LONDON WIR 9FA TELEPHONE: 01 ...

... 260 flung their aircraft at the Allies' Far Eastern fleets in the last year of the Second World War. The different types of suicide plane were given oddly homely codenames by the Allies- Peggy, Debby, Alf and The Japanese themselves chose poetic titles ...

... the household and, during the occupation of the Second World War, was used as a watercress bed. On one side of the lawn is an attractive mixed border containing much of interest, although the highlights are the herbaceous geraniums, pulmonarias, shrubby ...

... Second World War J ohnson was a prolific designer of small, one-off houses in Bridlington, or that in the 1950 s and early 1960 s he was principally a church architect? Few also will know of the quality of furniture he designed. Some of the finest examples ...

... - three convertibles from the Vulcan Motor and Engineering Co. The tramway was closed during the second world war, the horses were sold off and barbedacross the wire fences spread across the promenade from the hotels, which housed German prisoner -of-war ...

... When the museum was reopened after the Second World War, the decoration was degraded, and the walls were painted white, as they have remained. These stark wall provide an unsympathetic background for 17th-century portraits, and to relieve this, the partitions ...