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Mitford, Garbo and a dodgy septic tank: inside England s last great literary salon
Why did everyone from Graham Greene to Benjamin Britten flock to rural Dorset? To meet the Crichel Boys
14 February 2021 • 12:00pm
‘Prose factory’: the rectory at Long Crichel, Dorset
Credit: David Grandorge
Nancy Mitford, a regular visitor to Long Crichel, a Queen Anne rectory in Dorset, called the house “a prose factory” and its owners “the Brontës”. For Rosamond Lehmann, a visit was one of her “treats and pleasures”. Ben Nicolson, the elder son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, said that “Crichel is almost too good to be true… it seems to me the ideal house.” It was the last of the great English literary salons.
Margaret Watson.
No wonder he caused a local sensation when he decided to visit a Dewsbury mill shortly after the Queen’s coronation in 1952.
He was here looking for material for his book entitled “The Queen’s Countrywomen” which was all about working women.
The author came to Wormalds and Walker’s mill in Thornhill Lees to talk to women weavers about their work.
Blanket coverage: Famous author and broadcaster of the 1950s, Godfrey Winn is pictured with a group of weavers from Wormalds and Walker’s mill, Thornhill Lees – the biggest blanket manufacturing mill in the country. He went there in search of material for his book, The Queen’s Countrywomen, which was all about working women.