John Betjeman

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Name: John Betjeman
First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

District News - May 21

At the May meeting 25 members and a visitor attended. There was disappointment that the levels of support for the recent Hall of Stalls had not been as positive as anticipated. This resulted in a mix of fortunes for the various stalls with some doing ... [Published Lynn News - 12 hours ago]
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

How love was in the air for John Betjeman

“I am weak from your loveliness,” he wrote, ending with the words. “And now I’m engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.”So the Londoner was rather excited to be invited by Alexandra Hunter-Dunn, senior account executive with Captive Minds Communications, to ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 07 2013]
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

TV chief died in a beauty spot he loved all his life

Nick Milligan had been enjoying a break at his £2million dream homeThe home was built overlooking Daymer Bay in CornwallHe and daughter Emily, 8, were killed when their boat tipped overWife Victoria and son Kit suffered serious leg injuries after speedboat ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 07 2013]
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

Civic Society’s anger over siting of kiosk in St George’s Square

MEMBERS of Huddersfield Civic Society have renewed their attack on the siting of a Tardis-style ?monstrosity? in the town centre.Chairman Chris Marsden is furious over the placement of the ATM machine and BT public pay phone kiosk in St George?s Square. ... [Published Huddersfield Daily Examiner - May 07 2013]
First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Let's move to Chipping Ongar, Essex

It's got an amusing name, a metropolitan gloss… but at heart it's just a lovely old townWhat's going for it? Chipping Ongar sounds like a euphemism dreamed up by Carry On scriptwriters. As in, "Ooh, he got me right in the Chipping Ongars." It is not. ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 03 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Duchess of Cambridge 'immaculately dressed even as a teenager'

The 'pristine' appearance of the Duchess of Cambridge and her sister Pippa Middleton when they were schoolgirls made other families feel 'rather hopeless', a mother whose daughter was at the same school as the sisters has revealed. The mother, whose child ... [Published Telegraph - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

The Faded Grandeur Of London’s Old Town Halls

The old Lewisham Town Hall, a Gothic revival building completed in 1875. It ceased to be Town Hall in 1932, when a new building replaced it. It was despite a campaign, supported by John Betjeman, to save it.The boroughs of Holborn, Marylebone, Shoreditch, ... [Published Londonist - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Are you being served?

The number of people working as domestic servants has made a massive jump - and they don't only work for the super-rich The servant is back in Mayfair and not just on the set of Upstairs, Downstairs. A new study has uncovered the startling fact that there ... [Published Telegraph - Apr 29 2013]
First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Failure is a Word (un)Known to Me

Fucked for finals? Phoebe Williams and Rebecca Roughan chart Oxford’s most successful failuresEvelyn Waugh“You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them”So intently did Waugh try ... [Published The Oxford Student - Apr 25 2013]
First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 3 reports

St Pancras station unveils new artwork

The high flying world of travel: St Pancras station unveils new cloud sculptureBy Sebastian LanderPassengers at London's St Pancras International station may need to look twice when they gaze up at the clock today as a new art installation is unveiled ... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 18 2013]
First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Area Focus ¢â‚¬â€œ Diss

Posted In : Places to Visit in NorfolkWhat’s the history?Since the time of the Domesday survey the town has been known as Dic, Dize, Disce, Dysse, Dis and Diss. The Anglo-Saxon name ‘Dic’, means ‘ditch of standing water’, and this may relate to the ... [Published EastLife - Apr 16 2013]
First reported Feb 28 2013 - Updated Feb 28 2013 - 1 reports

When it's time to leave the teddy bear at home

If Sir Robert Clark could take his faithful teddy bear with him to the front during the second world war, you'd think our children would be allowed to take their favourite toys and comforters to school. But if they're not allowed to, how do you part them ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 28 2013]

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District News - May 21 [Published Lynn News - 12 hours ago]
How love was in the air for John Betjeman [Published London Evening Standard - May 07 2013]
Civic Society’s anger over siting of kiosk in S... [Published Huddersfield Daily Examiner - May 07 2013]
TV chief died in a beauty spot he loved all his... [Published Mail Online UK - May 07 2013]
Civic Society's anger over siting of kiosk in S... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 07 2013]
Let's move to Chipping Ongar, Essex [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 03 2013]
Roll out the barrel [Published Economia - May 01 2013]
Duchess of Cambridge 'immaculately dressed even... [Published Telegraph - Apr 30 2013]
London Calling [Published Places and Faces - Apr 30 2013]
The Faded Grandeur Of London’s Old Town Halls [Published Londonist - Apr 30 2013]
Trematon Castle: a gorgeous garden in the making [Published Telegraph - Apr 30 2013]
Are you being served? [Published Telegraph - Apr 29 2013]
Failure is a Word (un)Known to Me [Published The Oxford Student - Apr 25 2013]
St Pancras station unveils new artwork [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 18 2013]
Cloud artwork that 'floats' above commuters at ... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 18 2013]
Remarkable cloud artwork which floats high abov... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 18 2013]
Area Focus ¢â‚¬â€œ Diss [Published EastLife - Apr 16 2013]
The perfect cottage holiday in Cornwall, England [Published Travel With A Mate - Apr 16 2013]
Graham Ovenden lived in rambling rural idyll wi... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 02 2013]
Artist Graham Ovenden convicted of historic chi... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 02 2013]
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas [feature film] [Published Khmerization - Mar 04 2013]
When it's time to leave the teddy bear at home [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 28 2013]
Wokingham Choral Society’s “Twas the night befo... [Published John Redwood MP - Dec 23 2012]
Give a little more love at Christmas ... and iP... [Published Herald Scotland - Dec 23 2012]
Orwell is 'too Left-wing for statue, says BBC [Published Telegraph - Aug 21 2012]
Baroness Bakewell: forget the politics and buil... [Published Telegraph - Aug 21 2012]
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas [feature film] [Published Khmerization - Mar 04 2013]
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells andsights, before the dark hour of reason grows”John BetjemanNB: Story of an unlikely friendship between the son of a Nazi concentration camp commandant and a Jewish boy prisoner - School of Vice ...
Wokingham Choral Society’s “Twas the night befo... [Published John Redwood MP - Dec 23 2012]
  The choir was in great voice again last night to welcome in Christmas.  Four soloists responded well to the challenge of filling the Church with their single voices. They organisers  put on Christmas songs, carols and readings. I was pleased to be ...
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