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...But when they heard that a nearby plot and ruin they’d admired might be available for sale, Norwood started to make inquiries....
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...“We’ve seen people who would never have imagined they’d need a food bank,” says Elizabeth Maytom, who has helped to lead Norwood & Brixton food bank in south London since it opened in 2011....
...“The term ‘heroic’ building has been interpreted in the negative, but I’d say the world desperately needs heroic ideas in all forms, including architecture.”...
...Pottery day, £76; 7 Parade Mews, Norwood Road, London SE27 (parademewspottery.co.uk) The best book I’ve read in the past year is Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel....
...An assistant suggests leaving a book by the till, for those who’d really just prefer to write down their thoughts....
...Pissarro complained that “there is no art” in Britain and set about supplying it: the lyrical “The Avenue, Sydenham” and snowbound “Fox Hill, Upper Norwood” are among the earliest evocations of Victorian...
...Except in Switzerland, where the stories were banned from railway bookstalls for fear they’d inspire criminality, Sherlock Holmes was big business from the moment of his inception....
...Charles Portis’ Norwood, Eric Vuillard’s 14 Juillet, Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing With Feathers. Who would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party?...
...Timeship will be much more than a hub for R&D....
...“Even as the disease was coming on stronger and stronger, every time I’d go to a piece of wood I’d start anew,” he says. “There was some value to be had in that — you never got tired or bored....
...In one article he paired Montrachet with fish and chips from Ace Plaice, his then-local chippy in West Norwood....
...In fact, it’s making such gains that the Clooneys might have saved themselves about £1m if they’d purchased the same property a year earlier, according to Johnny Morris, Hamptons International’s head of...
...As was Guigal’s Château d’Ampuis Côte Rôtie 2003 and 2009....
...There’s very little traffic, parking is relatively easy, the ‘High Street’ is unspoilt by big-name stores, it’s very attractive and there’s a genuine village feel,” says Hamish Gilfeather, of agents John D...
...He also used his own D-handle design, a bent steel bar (which has since become globally ubiquitous), for the furniture and fittings, giving everything an austere, functional but elegantly industrial look...
...With the change leftover, I’d buy a seaplane to allow weekend access – and a few decent stags.”...
...Which US writer was commemorated this year with an official English Heritage plaque on a house in Upper Norwood? This chronicler of LA crime lived in the south London suburb between 1901 and 1907. 36....
...If you’d talked to Cy [Twombly] in old age or Jasper Johns or Ellsworth Kelly they’d say, ‘Of course you have to learn’: it’s about developing articulacy in a medium.”...
...“Many Europeans believe places like the Cote d’Azur are now too crowded and poor value for money....
...One attraction is the proximity of other glamorous Côte d’Azur locations....
...The port is the largest single employer in the area, while tourism and education, including the Collège d’Europe postgraduate university, are major employers in the city itself....
...Three miles east of the centre is a 1920s house with an uninterrupted sea view across to the Isle of Wight; it has five bedrooms and a £2.5m price tag, on sale through John D. Wood & Co....
...“Classic style apartments in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Le Marais and the Triangle d’Or in the 8th arrondissement” are most popular, says Susie Hollands of estate agency Vingt Paris....
...Some looking in the Côte d’Azur and Provence will look further west. Location remains a key driver for many but in these economic circumstances, value for money is a top consideration.”...
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