Evergreen Magazine

31 August 2022

Evergreen Autumn 2022 Issue - Wendy Turner visits Highfield Park, a park for all seasons in Hertfordshire, Chris Franks wonders if the successful post-war poet Philip Larkin deserves his reputation for pessimism, Amanda Hodges looks back on the long career of the archetypal screen villain, Christopher Lee, and Gregory Holyoake explains how a short stint as a real-life teacher inspired comedian Jimmy Edwards’s comic persona. Andrew Millham looks at John Barleycorn, an ancient folklore figure who personifies the season’s harvest, Julie Britchford remembers seeing Queen in Hyde Park, John Griffiths remembers the happy days of Saturday morning cinema, Byways visits Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein, Lin Bensley tells the story of the space pop pioneer Joe Meek, David Elliott visits Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders and is enthralled by its style and collections, Tracey Steel remembers the stars of 'Get Carter', and Kath Garner remembers the 1970s series about the home of rest for horses, 'Follyfoot'. - Evergreen is Britain's best-loved quarterly miscellany of this and that and things gone by. Each issue takes readers on a gentle journey down that most rewarding of byways - memory lane.