I finally made it to the Garden Museum’s Bloomsbury exhibition which has been so wildly popular over the summer that it has apparently been hard to get in.

It starts with Ottoline Morrell, who held court at Garsington Manor till the house was sold in 1928:-

She certainly had an amazing pair of ornamented gumboots:-

One of the surprises is Roger Fry’s painting of Vanessa Bell in 1911, the year of his Post-Impressionist exhibition.  I have always thought of him as a slightly muddy painter, but this is full of colour and zest:-

Then comes Vita Sackville-West in a wonderful portrait by William Strang:-

In 1948, she was photographed for the Strand magazine by the German photographer John Gay who did wonderful photographs of London’s railway stations, including Liverpool Street:-