This stumpy little church buried amongst the Kent apple orchards is All Saints Tudeley – and it is the only church in the world to have had every one of its twelve windows created by the Russian artist Marc Chagall. How come? In the early 1960s the grand house nearby, Somerhill, belonged to Sir Henry …
Walks
Being on the receiving end of the talking walks
Many readers will remember that the idea for my ‘talking walks’ came from my cousin Des, who, thanks to an inherited condition, was gradually losing his sight. Sadly, Des’ sight has deteriorated dramatically to all but zero over the last two years. He wrote the following piece for a local newspaper using only Voiceover technology …
Festival of the Great North Wood 7-13th December
Back in the Middle Ages the Great North Wood was a natural oak woodland that started three miles south-east of central London and scaled the Norwood Ridge. At its full extent, the wood’s boundaries stretched almost as far as Croydon and as far north as Camberwell. It had occasional landownings as large clearings, well-established by …