Vanbrugh300 (9)
One of the highlights of Vanbrugh300 was this morning’s discussion of Vanbrugh’s life and work at the Chalke Valley History Festival. The panel included Ophelia Field who wrote an excellent biography of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough and a study of the Kit-Cat Club; Rory Fraser who is publishing a biography of Vanbrugh; and was chaired…
Faith Raven (3)
Some time ago, I posted the obituary of my aunt, Faith Raven. It detailed all of her less attractive characteristics, which mainly consisted of the fact that she would say exactly what she thought without regard for the consequences, which she thought was being plain-speaking, but could be, and indeed sometimes was, offensive. But we…
St. Mary’s, Snettisham
En route to Hunstanton, we called in on St. Mary’s, Snettisham, an improbably magnificent 14th. century church in a beautiful position set some distance away from the village, not far from Sandringham:- In one of the transepts were pictures of all the vicars from the early nineteenth century on, a wonderful social history of the…
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