The way we were photographs from the country life archive

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One of the most photographed stands at last week’s Chelsea Flower Show was COUNTRY LIFE’s ‘outdoor drawing room’, a tranquil Italianate loggia designed by Isabella Worsley, says Giles Kime

Eleven friends of COUNTRY LIFE pen a love letter to their small, yet oh so distinctive patches of the British Isles, from the big skies of the north Norfolk coast to the street art of Belfast, from the glens of Perthshire to the Exe estuary in Devon via the apple orchards of Herefordshire

THE WAY WE WERE

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK/VIKTORISHY 1 W e can dim the ...

Sue Harragin has a clutch of old black-and-white photographs which, though not in any way exceptional, offer a beguiling glimpse into everyday life at her moorland cottage some 70 years ago. The neat