A picnic on the old station bench at Adlestrop, Glos, where Edward Thomas’s poem is etched onto a plaque Credit: Photo: Christopher Jones SIR – I felt sad to learn from your article on Adlestrop that ...
Are nourished and invisibly repaired . . . In other words, some experience or vision, however fleetingly glimpsed, endures in memory as a redemptive and healing presence, to “renovate” and “repair” ...
The poet and essayist Edward Thomas’s well-loved poem was first published in the New Statesman in June 1917, shortly after his death at the Battle of Arras. By Edward Thomas Yes. I remember Adlestrop— ...
After yesterday’s sombre dialogue by Edward Thomas, here is a sunnier memento of that fine poet, killed at Arras a hundred years ago. Adlestrop, set in the idyllic southern countryside, is probably ...
It was the afternoon of June 24, 1914, when the train carrying writer Edward Thomas drew up unwontedly at Adlestrop station. No one got on or off. The steam from the engine hissed. From the carriage ...
The village of Adlestrop is little more than a cluster of houses, a racing stables and a post office nestling under a little Cotswold hill off the quiet B-road that links Chipping Norton and ...
Poldark star Eleanor Tomlinson: judged the fun dog show at invitation of Richard PhillipsCredit: Edward Whitaker Poldark fans itching for the new series to begin on BBC1 on Sunday evening have an ...
Victoria Huxley, who lives in Adlestrop, has opened a new window on the Cotswolds family of Jane Austen, and their influence on her work. Austen visited her Leigh cousins several times and it was here ...
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