The way we were photographs from the country life archive

The village shop that sold pick ‘n’ mix sweets. A cowpat-strewn country lane with occasional glimpses of Glastonbury Tor. Leaping the wooden stile into Butterfly Wood. It’s over 30 years since I last

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

*We reserve the right to edit correspondence I was interested to read in your August issue that both John Craven’s article and the Q&A section – ‘How do I stay safe when wild swimming?’ – talked about

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DICK WALKER’S ‘HIGHWAY CODE’ COLUMN, 1960