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...The hitch for Yanks wishing to live out this reverie today is that, outside Oxbridge, most British men — even landed gentry — don’t bust out their boating blazers quite as often as they used to....
...Through the centuries, thanks to the influential lobbying of the nobility and the gentry, land taxes had gradually been whittled away....
...He wasn’t gentry....
...The imposing domed hall, an elaborate structure set in landscaped grounds in the city in north-east England, was a symbol of pride and confidence funded by the pennies of working men....
...He promoted the hobby and encouraged much of the landed gentry to start collections of their own....
...Educated at Eton, Christie seemed to personify the English gentry in an age when the species was widely reckoned to be extinct....
...“People struggle to understand pensions and when the penny finally drops about how much they will receive on retirement it can come as a shock....
...Bad Penny Blues By Cathi Unsworth Serpent’s Tail £7.99, 448 pages FT Bookshop price: £6.39 Bad Penny Blues” is the title of a Humphrey Lyttelton jazz track that captures the smoky flavour of London streets...
...“No one else wanted it, so we bought it from the state for pennies,” says Andrzej, who makes his living as an architect and an artist who paints portraits of horses. “It had a negative real value....
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