YRM Offices
I had the former offices of YRM pointed out to me this morning: an early office block – 1961 – next door to the churchyard of the former St. Dunstan’s in the West. At the time it was described as ‘an oasis of quality in the midst of quantity’. It looks so polite and almost…
St. Deiniol’s, Worthenbury
On the long drive back to London, we stopped off at St. Deiniol’s, Worthenbury, an astonishingly well-preserved, early Georgian church apparently in the middle of rural Cheshire (more rural than I expected), but, actually, I have discovered it is just over the border in Wales. Opened in 1739, designed by Robert Trubshaw, but, not surprisingly,…
Sir Christopher Ondaatje OC
I was very sad to hear of the death this morning of my good and remarkable friend, Christopher Ondaatje, aged 93. Christopher came into my life in 1996 when I was Director of the National Portrait Gallery. We were looking to raise money for what became the Ondaatje Wing. I got a message from Henry…
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