Dreweatts
Was there ever a more splendid house than Hampshire’s Hollycombe? The 18th century wonder seems to capture the imagination in a similar way that Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead might. Not only breathtakingly beautiful, set amidst landscaped pleasure grounds, its interiors were a
bona fide sensory feast. Curated by bon vivant and much-loved friend, the late Tim Hoare, and his beautiful wife Virginia.
Dreweatts, the Berkshire-based auction house, will be hosting the sale of ‘Hollycombe House: The Collection of Tim and Virginia Hoare’ on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 June this year. They colourfully describe the interiors as combining ‘the magic of a Scottish baronial shooting lodge with a Gentleman’s London Club’.
National Trust houses and other properties in England will start to reopen their doors to visitors from Monday as restrictions are lifted. And this is great news for residents in Basingstoke who are keen for a change of scenery. The Vyne in Sherborne St John will be opening back up again or for those willing to venture further afield, Uppark near Petersfield, and Mottisfont near Romsey. Highlights include The Vyne’s exquisite Tudor chapel, Uppark’s sumptuous Georgian interiors, and Mottisfont’s Whistler room where artist Rex Whistler created his famous tromp l’oeil artworks. Staff and volunteers have been working behind the scenes to get properties ready to reopen safely.
A 30 year old Foz in downtown Chicago
- Credit: Gill Powell
In his latest On Air in Suffolk column, broadcaster Stephen Foster recalls a memorable trip to cover the Chicago Blues Festival.
1990 was a key year in my radio career. After eight very happy years at Radio Orwell and Saxon Radio I suddenly found myself at a crossroads and I’m not talking about the junction where Crown Street meets Museum Street and High Street.
The new owners of Suffolk’s two commercial stations were understandably keen to freshen up the output and I soon realised my face and voice didn’t really fit anymore. As far as I knew I wasn’t about to lose my job but I was told that if I was planning to hang around then I’d be moved down the schedule.
A 30 year old Foz in downtown Chicago
- Credit: Gill Powell
In his latest On Air in Suffolk column, broadcaster Stephen Foster recalls a memorable trip to cover the Chicago Blues Festival.
1990 was a key year in my radio career. After eight very happy years at Radio Orwell and Saxon Radio I suddenly found myself at a crossroads and I’m not talking about the junction where Crown Street meets Museum Street and High Street.
The new owners of Suffolk’s two commercial stations were understandably keen to freshen up the output and I soon realised my face and voice didn’t really fit anymore. As far as I knew I wasn’t about to lose my job but I was told that if I was planning to hang around then I’d be moved down the schedule.
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‘Life is at its most uninhibited here,’ Joan Eardley said of Townhead, then a slum in the centre of Glasgow. The painter, who was born 100 years ago this month, set up her studio there in 1949, fresh from her studies at Glasgow School of Art. Though she spent long spells in Catterline, an impoverished fishing village on the east coast, south of Aberdeen, Eardley would maintain a studio in Townhead until her premature death from breast cancer in 1963, at the age of just 42. She had found here ‘a little community […] where everybody knew everybody else’. She made it both her métier and her home.