One of the things I like to do both when I am giving tours or merely pottering around the countryside in my own time is to stop off an explore village churches. Each one is a veritable box of delights and you can never tell what you will find inside. Almost always there will be… Continue reading The Bacton Altar Cloth Revealed To Be The Only Surviving Gown of Queen Elizabeth I
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Royal Feasts through the ages
Yesterday I had the good fortune of being allowed inside the banquet house of King William III at Hampton Court. A building big enough to house many of the hoi-polloi but a mere dot on the huge expanse which is Hampton Court Palace. Even the attendant on the door had not been in this building for… Continue reading Royal Feasts through the ages
Stephen Liddell 