Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 02, 2006 at 01:53:58 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Ransome Article in Todays Guardian - Holding Our Kids to Ransome posted by Jock on February 01, 2006 at 00:05:26:
I guess Beckfoot with it's disused tennis courts and former croquet lawns might have been built or gentrified in Edwardian times
England is still full of houses like that although, regretably, prosperity is catching up with them and the tennis courts are being cleaned up, along with the croquet lawns. But a Pimms at sunset looking out over the lawn still fairly takes you back a hundred years...