Photographs from the country life archive

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

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

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

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Some of the city’s finest restaurants are found inside museums. COUNTRY LIFE writers round up the very best

Eadie & Crole collaborates with Lorfords Contemporary Interior design duo Sophie Eadie and Fi Crole have launched their first upholstered furniture in collaboration with luxury Cotswold makers Lorford