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...It’s just a dream, isn’t it? It’s a dream house.” Sean Scully at Houghton Hall – Smaller Than the Sky runs at Houghton Hall until 29 October...
...“Some of these huge-scale concerts, the ticket prices are eye-watering,” says Sybil Bell, founder of Independent Venue Week....
...Thus artist Sybil Andrews summed up the possibilities offered by a novel method of printmaking. It was 1929 and Andrews’ subject was London’s Queen’s Hall....
...I met the Seigneur, Christopher Beaumont, along with his wife Sarah and son (and heir) Hugh at the Island Hall, a pub-come-café-come-community-centre, over a cheese & onion toastie....
...The future prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, published Sybil in 1845; Charles Dickens brought out Hard Times in 1854 and Mrs Gaskell North and South in 1855....
...His taste for acrobatics came from watching a fountain at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. “It was a jet of water from a wall, landing in a frog’s mouth....
...In 1919, Cholmondeley’s grandmother Sybil Sassoon, a renowned sophisticate, married the fifth marquess and set about restoring Houghton in earnest....
...Interestingly, Jared Brown, who created the gin for owners Sam Galsworthy and Fairfax Hall, did so by going back to the early 18th-century recipes....
...Wimbledon, South west London Just off Wimbledon Hill road in leafy southwest London, voters came out of St Mark’s parish hall to be greeted by a steady drizzle of afternoon rain....
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