The way we were photographs from the country life archive

The garden at Salthrop Manor, Wiltshire The home of Sophie Conran

In each issue of Railways Illustrated, we ask a photographer to select their 10 favourite rail-related images and tell us the reasons why they believe these photos stand out from the crowd. This month

Photographer Martin Parr shows us his singular vision of Britain

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

The fairy photographs taken by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in Cottingley, near Bradford, in 1917 and promoted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – a firm believer in fairies – are among the most

*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