Monday, November 23, 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
A few details of the lovely frieze in the night nursery. it is by sporting artist and book illustrator Cecil Adams.
Wightwick Manor
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Some of the beautiful rooms at Wightwick Manor.
The inscription over the fireplace in the bedroom reads
'Imaginations calm and fair.
The memory like a cloudless air.
The conscience as a sea at rest.'
Wightwick Manor
Monday, November 16, 2015
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Sunday, November 08, 2015
The gables of Wightwick Manor are complete with quotations.
One says:
'Welcome ever smiles and farewell goes out sighing'
Others include lines from the poem, To Phyllis, to Love and Live with him by Robert Herrick
'What sweets the country can afford shall bless thy bed and bless thy board'
'Live, live with me and thou shalt see the pleasures I'll prepare for thee'
'Thy feasting tables shall be hills with daisies spread and daffodils'
Wightwick Manor
To Phyllis, to Love and Live with him by Robert Herrick
Saturday, November 07, 2015
This was the home of the Manders Family and is described as the haven of a romantic industrialist.
Wightwick Manor
Friday, November 06, 2015
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Labels:
Compton,
Surrey,
UK,
Watts Gallery
Location:
Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey, UK
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Labels:
Compton,
Surrey,
UK,
Watts Gallery
Location:
Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey, UK
Monday, October 26, 2015
Labels:
Surrey,
UK,
Watts Gallery
Location:
Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey, UK
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Friday, October 16, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Friday, October 09, 2015
Charleston from the garden. (Lewes, East Sussex BN8 6LL, United Kingdom)
Charleston was the home of the Bloomsbury Group and starred in the TV series Life in Squares, telling the story of the sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
Charleston
Life in Squares (This link may disappear with time!)
Charleston
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