Firle Beacon
I thought I would make a day of a trip to Charleston, so was dropped close to Firle Beacon in order to walk along the downs and dropping down to Tilton:-
Quentin Bell
It’s the opening of the Quentin Bell exhibition at Charleston and the house has acquired portraits of him on temporary loan, including an early portrait by Vanessa Bell (1921):- It supplements the portrait of him by Duncan Grant painted in 1919:- Then there is a portrait bust of his sister Angelica done in 1935, the…
Birmingham
I have been on a brisk walking tour of central Birmingham, starting at the Curzon Street booking hall of 1838 by Philip Hardwick, a very early piece of railway architecture for the London & Birmingham Railway:- The Millennium Point multi-story car park by Birmingham City Council Urban Design (2012):- The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire by Feilden…
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