In the small room behind the door, the team discovered the original hinges for two wooden doors some three-and-a-half meters high that would have opened into Westminster Hall. They also found graffiti, scribbled in pencil by bricklayers who worked on the restoration of the palace in 1851 fo...
Ilam Hall is now a Youth Hostel, but the grounds are open and there is an excellent National Trust tea room or two, so I treated myself to a cream tea after the hike over to Dovestones. The houses in Ilam village are just gorgeous, it was rebuilt as a model village styling itself ...
Hervey,The Wedmore Chronicle, pp. 84–6, 115; William G. Hall (ed.), ‘The Casebook of John Westover of Wedmore, Surgeon, 1686–1700’ (1999, unpublished; copy in Wellcome Library, London), Introduction, i. 86. Norman G. Horner, ‘John Westover of Wedmore’, inProceedings of the ...
In France, the terms château or manoir are often used synonymously to describe a French manor-house. More specifically a Maison-forte ("fortified-house") is a strongly fortified manor-house, which might include two sets of enclosing walls, drawbridges, and a ground-floor hall or salle bass...
The house in the window at Lord & Taylor is certainly big enough for a Silver Cross. It’s a three-story center-hall colonial, like Katharine Hepburn’s house inThe Philadelphia Story, and no doubt there’s an army of invisible servants helping things run smoothly. The year is 1927, and...