It has been hard to escape the heartbreaking scenes from Australia in recent weeks. The outback was, and is, burning with a ferocity not witnessed in living memory. With twenty-seven people and an estimated half a billion individuals of livestock and wildlife perishing in the fires that are currently spread across the continent. As I [...]
Drogo Castle’s the very last castle to be built in England, built between 1911 and 1930. Julius Drewe certainly had taste, the positioning was superb, and he employed two of the eminent people of their day, Edwin Lutyens as the architect and Gertrude Jeckyll was also drafted in to help with the garden scheme. There’s [...]
In print, Devonshire magazine was the largest circulation glossy in Devon, over 900 outlets across Devon received stocks of the magazine. In the photograph above, what you see is just one half of an issue’s magazines at store in East Devon, the other half being stored at our South Devon store at Newton Abbot ready [...]
If you subscribe to English Heritage and The National Trust annual membership, you'll receive their annual pack with the handbook and car stickers, something of a hefty pack, particularly with all the sales leaflets inside. Well, I have to say congrats to English Heritage, they're undoubtedly thinking green, because what I thought was a plastic [...]
