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Ripe For Rescuing
IN 1904, when the first £1 million cheque was signed in the Cardiff Coal Exchange, no one could have imagined that, 120 years later, the French Renaissance-inspired building would be falling into ruin. It now numbers among the Victorian Society’s lat
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Elegant And Congruous
Hartland Abbey, Devon, part II A seat of Sir Hugh and Lady Stucley IN the late spring of 1796, the Revd John Swete, of Oxton House, near Exeter, set off on a tour of the north coast of Devon. A tireless traveller in the county and an admirer of the P
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‘Plans Are Worthless, But Planning Is Everything’
AS day broke on June 5, 1944, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord, the invasion of occupied Europe, was driving to South-wick House near Portsmouth from what he called his ‘sharpener camp’ the other side of t