”A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.” (William Soutar, 1898 – 1943, Scottish poet diarist and epigrammatist)
Month: January 2024
Father and Son
The Duke of Cumberland
Only Baronets Care About Farthings
The D’Israeli Column
I hadn’t heard of Edward Buckton Lamb (1806 – 1869), a Victorian architect called “a Rogue Gothic Revivalist” criticised by his contemporaries but in the 20th century Pevsner called him “the most original though certainly not the most accomplished architect of his day”. I have now seen two of his works.