The way we were

I’ve wandered into an oil painting. In front of me is a millpond with a cream-coloured cottage at its edge and a froth of English greenery on its banks. The scene is unmistakable. Where my mind’s eye

These four glorious properties need only a modicum of tender loving care and offer great rewards to the far-sighted

Corfe Castle has towered over a Dorset peninsula for 900 years; its stone walls seeing kings crowned, civil wars fought and saints made

At the southern end of the Yorkshire Dales lie the ruins of Bolton Abbey, ingrained in my memory since I first marvelled at them as a teenager on a family outing. Using my simple, very limited Kodak B

THE stile, which most of us probably consider ...

Sir Don McCullin swaps war zones for garden sheds and stormy skies in a collection of still lifes and landscapes that reveal the master in a rare, contemplative mood, says Peter Dench