Bath Preservation Trust and No.1 Royal Crescent present: A Day in the Life of the Royal Crescent 29 July 2017 11am – 3pm The Royal Crescent was the greatest open-air theatre in Georgian England. In the 18th century John Wood the Younger’s sweeping terrace of thirty houses became the stage upon which the fashionable visitors… Read More Put on your bonnet, grab your reticule and get down to Bath
I’ve come across a lot of signs, notices and graffiti lately on my travels. Student graffiti on university buildings in Bologna; early 17th century names (choir boys and Roundhead thugs, I imagine) carved into an alabaster effigy on a tomb in St Nicholas Church, Bromham, Wiltshire, and a bit of Banksy, thrown in on a… Read More Making Your Mark
Dee visits Tetbury Police Museum. Read her Travel Trip ‘Cuffed in Glos’ in The Oldie https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-oldie/20170601/282484298641362
Literary Links to Tuscany Fascinated to learn that writer and poet Dame Muriel Spark, best known for novels such as Memento Mori (1959), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and The Girls of Slender Means (1961) lived for the last thirty years of her life in San Giovanni di Oliveto, a converted presbytery near… Read More Muriel Spark in Civitella
Dee reviews JB Priestley’s Dangerous Corner at Salisbury Playhouse http://www.jbpriestleysociety.com/2013/03/25/member-review-of-dangerous-corner-in-salisbury/
Ali Hollingbery, Publicity Officer for WILSAR (Wiltshire Lowland Search & Rescue), talks to Dee La Vardera for Wiltshire Magazine Join Our Club
