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A bridge too far for rare gulls
KITTIWAKE nests have been removed from a bridge in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, after concerns that the birds’ excrement was damaging the structure.
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January 11, 2023
Country Life UK
Farewell to a giantess of the trade
A selection of the late Jan Finch’s stock at Sworders reflects her wisdom, flair and eclectic taste
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Bearing gifts, we traverse afar
Festive entertainment—music, ballet, pantomime— is easy to find at this time of year, but the Christmas opera is a rarer beast, suggests Henrietta Bredin
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November 30, 2022
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A remarkable restoration
IN torrential rain and buffeted by vicious cross winds, I drove over the old Severn Bridge into Wales recently to meet Helena Gerrish at High Glanau Manor, her house near Monmouth, originally designed for himself by Henry Avray Tipping.
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November 30, 2022
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Trumpet majors
The magnificent new glasshouse display at West Dean, West Sussex, shows why it's time that hippeastrums came in from the cold, says John Hoyland
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Welcome to the party
Tired of hiding away the fine cutlery and taking down the family heirlooms? Then where better to entertain than a party barn?
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November 30, 2022
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Halfway houses
Two properties could be greater than the sum of their parts with a little investment, as another shows that a ruin is anything but
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November 30, 2022
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Putting a barn to work
Transforming a barn into a wedding venue, accommodation—or both— can be a nice little earner, finds Arabella Youens
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
A room for all reasons
Party barns were once little more than useful venues for large social gatherings, but now, former agricultural buildings are being converted into multifunctional spaces that are transforming rural properties, finds Arabella Youens
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Nature's way
THE Michelin-starred chef of Berkshire’s Coworth Park, Adam Smith (formerly of The Ritz), has just opened Coworth’s new restaurant, Woven, and it is outstanding.
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Taking the right turn
Joey Richardson's artwork is so exquisite that the Royal Warrant Holders Association asked her to create a gift for the Queen. Serena Shores meets the master craftswoman taking the ancient art of woodturning to new heights Photographs
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Fair-feather friends
Come autumn, millions of migrant birds flock to Britain to overwinter here. Stephen Moss charts their gruelling journeys from the Arctic, Scandinavia and Siberia and considers why they are prepared to fly so far
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November 30, 2022
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Each month of this 125th-anniversary year, COUNTRY LIFE illustrates a period in the development of the English country house. In the 11th of this 12-part series, John Goodall looks at the early 20th century
ON September 7, 1918, the critic and biographer Lytton Strachey wrote to his cousin Mary Hutchinson from The Bird in the Bush Inn at Elsdon, Northumberland.
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
The Mousetrap
A DECADE ago, an entry on The Mousetrap in the Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre noted that audiences for the long-running West End phenomenon were said to have consumed more than 395 tons of ice cream and 80,000 gallons of drinks, as backstage staff ironed about 100 miles of shirts.
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Show me the way to go home
Plodding home in the gloaming, through a wood stripped bare by November gales, John Lewis-Stempel stumbles across a magical fairy ring of wood-blewit fungi
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Littered with snags
ONCE we sign up to litter picking in the countryside, we never get let off. It’s an unending task, in which we soon get to know the worst offenders.
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Off balance
RECENT figures that appeared in your magazine (Town & Country, October 26) showed that, off Blakeney Point in Norfolk, grey-seal pup birth numbers were 25 in 2001, a little more than 3,000 in 2019 and predicted to be 4,500 this year. Their main diet is fish and crustaceans.
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November 30, 2022
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Castle gates clang shut
NOTTINGHAM CASTLE closed its doors to the public last week, after the trust that manages it fell into liquidation.
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November 30, 2022
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From a jester to The King
LAST week, The King visited St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield, London EC1, in anticipation of a major restoration project and the 900th anniversary of the hospital’s foundation.
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Beauty in a bridge
THE footbridge that connects the rugged headland of Tintagel, Cornwall, to the mainland, completed in 2019, has won the Building Beauty Awards organised by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust.
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Tasty and trustworthy
ATERRIFYING statistic I heard recently is that there are more food banks in this country than McDonald’s,’ says S. J. Hunt, CEO of the Country Food Trust (CFT).
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November 30, 2022
Country Life UK
Harrying back
WE might soon see hen harriers circling above the skies of the congested A303 after a conservation breeding scheme was announced by Natural England.
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November 30, 2022
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Let there be light and song
WHEN thinking of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, you would be more than forgiven for training your mind to turn on the radio at 3pm on Christmas Eve to hear the soft solo treble of Once in Royal David’s City echo from the lone chorister at King’s College, Cambridge.
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November 30, 2022
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No time for sentiment
After shovelling silage and feeding his sheep on a damp October morning, John Lewis-Stempel takes aim at a grey-squirrel drey in a bid to warn off its absent occupants from targeting songbirds
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October 26, 2022
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The phoenix rises
London is the centre of all things Eastern and Oriental this week
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October 26, 2022
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Changing places
A modern masterpiece leads a pack of three fine homes in the north of England
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October 26, 2022
Country Life UK
Clamberers not climbers
AS do most gardeners, I have a clear image of what I expect from a plant. Dahlias must be bright and bold, sweet peas overloaded with perfume and delphiniums the colour of a Mediterranean sky.
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October 26, 2022
Country Life UK
All fired up: The garden at Gresgarth Hall, Caton, Lancashire The home of Sir Mark and Lady Lennox-Boyd
In a non-stop firework display of sulphurous yellow, flaming scarlet and glowing amber, this garden lights up the soul–and the autumn skies, reports Non Morris
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October 26, 2022
Country Life UK
A song of chance and fire
Autumn colour is often fleeting and notoriously hard to predict, but pick the right plants and, sooner or later, you will revel in a glorious blaze, says Steven Desmond
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October 26, 2022
Country Life UK
COUNTRY LIFE BEST IN CLASS 2022
COUNTRY LIFE'S editorial team has pooled knowledge and instinct to share a highly curated selection of 70 items that epitomise craftsmanship, aesthetics, function, durability, quality and are a pleasure to own Compiled by Carla Passino
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