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...Shot mainly on location in Notting Hill, west London, and on a budget of £11,000, Pressure tracks Tony, a school leaver whose constant job applications go nowhere despite his good grades, as he grapples...
...Now, once a year, it plays host to the Strawberry Hill Flower Festival....
...(Horace died not long after we spoke.)...
...Horace Walpole’s Gothick library at Strawberry Hill kicked off a furnishing trend of fussier bookcases and right into the 20th century libraries remained a pivotal part of a grand house....
...Twickenham’s Strawberry Hill House gallery, built by Horace Walpole in 1749, followed suit this summer with an exhibition of 14 Gothic sets, including a staging of Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto....
...Most tracks let the original recording set the scene: a loop of Horace Silver’s piano on “Ecaroh”, a roll of Art Blakey’s drums on “Mr Jin”....
...West Wycombe’s gardens include a temple and a parlour of Venus, installed at the time of Dashwood’s marriage to a rich widow: Horace Walpole described her as a “Presbyterian prude”....
...Walpole’s book was inspired by the strange house he created at Strawberry Hill on the banks of the Thames near Richmond....
...His direct, incisive portraits, and those of his colleagues — Neil Kenlock, chronicling the Black Panther movement; Charlie Phillips’ crystalline close-ups of mixed race couples in Notting Hill; Horace Ové...
...I want a total flight of fancy, along the lines of Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. So there it is: faux-marble, black metal and wedding cakes. You’re welcome. As for what’s naff?...
...Over the tunnel’s entrance from the garden Pope placed a block of stone inscribed with words from an Epistle by the poet Horace....
...Paintings and items owned by Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill’s mastermind, have been returned to their original positions in his house....
...The first feature by a black British director, giving a surreal twist to the disenchantment of a second generation, this was initially shelved as too explosive after the Notting Hill Carnival riots of 1976...
...Pepys took it hard when one of his favourite taverns, The Angell on Tower Hill, in common with many others, closed....
...The fake Gothic white castle at Strawberry Hill, “my little play-thing house . . . the prettiest bauble you ever saw”, was Horace Walpole’s rebellious, imaginative answer....
...Managing partner Jerome Stern is a descendant of the banking family that owned Strawberry Hill between 1884 and 1923. “Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill” runs from October 20 2018 to February 26 2019....
...The other was an article published in The Nation by the philosopher Horace Kallen: “Democracy versus the Melting Pot”....
...A member of the Faculty of Divinity, Mr Goode cited the Roman poet Horace in conclusion: “Dum loquimur, fugerit invida ætas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.”...
...Horace, the greatest poet of Roman antiquity and perhaps the greatest cantor of time, calls it our “brief circle” (“You must be wise....
...But Strawberry Hill — Horace Walpole’s white Gothic fantasy castle in Twickenham, south-west London, built in the decades after 1747 — has intrigued scholars asking this very question....
...Its creator was Horace Walpole, the 18th-century author, social commentator and antiquarian. The son of a British prime minister, Walpole was a man of great wealth and little responsibility....
...Horace Walpole sipped sherbet from his Strawberry Hill terrace as he gazed down his Thames vista to the sailors in Twickenham, his “seaport in miniature”....
...timothytaylorgallery.com, 020 7409 3344, to July 11 Laura Ford, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham The lavish eccentricity of Horace Walpole’s Gothic villa finds contemporary counterpart in Ford’s playful, allusive...
...One of the new entrants to the long list of grand English houses showing sculpture is Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, a gothicky, castellated folly created by the author Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1776...
...It can be too much of a good thing so I go sparingly Jeremy Grant is a former Singapore correspondent for the FT Photographs: Hal Shinnie; Getty Images; Horace Bristol/Hulton Archive; Chris Steele-Perkins...
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