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Dou at Dulwich

  The Dulwich Picture Gallery doesn’t get the visitors it deserves because it’s not on the tube. It is a ten minute hop on the overground from Victoria to Dulwich West and then a ten minute walk through the leafy purlieus of Dulwich.

Plane, Train or Slow Lane?

I haven’t ridden my Brompton bike for years. I say this is a safety play as I don’t want to be squashed under a lorry. This happened to me on Hyde Park Corner in the 1970s and I don’t want a repeat. You may say I’m lazy.

Landmarks

John Smith and I share a birthday, albeit his was in 1923. Rather a common name, his I mean? Certainly, but he was an uncommon man.

Hang On and Hand On

“With peeling paintwork and overgrown courtyards, Calke Abbey, tells the story of the dramatic decline of a country house estate” says the National Trust. (The NT should read a catalogue of buildings in Ireland that have dramatically declined, as chronicled by Robert O’Byrne, The Irish Aesthete.)

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Swarkestone Pavilion

Here’s another Round on the Links, set by me not James Walton. What is the connection between two Rolling Stones albums, a building in Las Vegas and a 17th Century bowling green? Not hard, the answer is today’s title.

Double Death on the Avon

I noticed this plaque while I was walking in Wiltshire last week.  It’s quite new and a local woman walking her dog told me replaces an older memorial.

A Round on the Links

FTWeekend is a must-read for me. It is delivered in hard copy to my door and if I’m away I can usually find a copy. The overseas editions have most of the same content as the UK edition. One regular item that you will miss if you are an overseas reader is A Round on… Continue reading A Round on the Links