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...In 1967, production moved to Bletchley, close to Milton Keynes, where the company still has its headquarters....
...Among watercolours based on Alesworth’s photographs are surreally clinical images of “exotic” flora in Milton Keynes....
...Hong Kong Flower Show, Victoria Park The theme of this year’s show is “Floral Joy Around Town”, with the angelonia (Angel Flower) as the star bloom....
...My work is like, ‘Come over here, look at me, I’m loud,’ but if you spend more time with the paintings, they make you feel uneasy,” says Hughes, whose painterly inspirations run from Milton Avery to Hilma...
...China policy experts have drawn comparisons between Chinese companies targeting UK councils and Beijing negotiating infrastructure deals with the Australian state of Victoria....
...Victoria’s Secret has struggled to adapt....
...Yet Spedan was in some ways a difficult, obsessive man, as Victoria Glendinning writes in her eye-opening history Family Business....
...Victoria Clarke, economist at the wealth management group Investec, added: “A very solid bounce back in business investment in Q3 looks much less likely than it does for consumption.”...
...In 1982 he funded the opening of a gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum dedicated to contemporary design....
...The company had claimed founder Trevor Milton, pictured below, designed the vehicle “in his basement”....
...Painted in 1961, Milton Avery’s self-portrait sums up his situation at the time....
...Haircut 100 or Bow Wow Wow than Poison, or Skid Row.” — Lou Spanos, IB economics teacher at Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, Australia...
...Victoria Mayes, one of the children who stayed, was born in “the long hot summer” of 1976. How was MK as a place to grow up, I ask. “I’ve always loved it,” she replies breezily....
...One of Stubbs’s most famous depictions of a horse, “Whistlejacket”, will travel from the National Gallery to MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, as a highlight of its Stubbs show, the largest exhibition of the...
...Robin Milton’s family have farmed on Exmoor for nine generations....
...Sales of weighty — and pricey — works included Milton Avery’s “Adolescents by the Sea” (1948, $375,000) and Lee Krasner’s “Water No. 18” (1969, $225,000)....
...More columns at ft.com/lander Photograph: Charlie Bibby Hai Cenato 2 Sir Simon Milton Square, London SW1E 5DJ; 020 3816 9320; haicenato.co.uk Starters £8-£13 Mains £14-£32 Aster 150 Victoria Street...
...Never a dull moment in the field of artists’ estates right now: Victoria Miro is the latest major dealer to add to her roster, taking on the estate of American Modern artist Milton Avery (1885-1965)....
...Buying guide • Brixton is on the Victoria line, which runs all night on Fridays and Saturdays....
...At the Standard, he shared a desk with Max Hastings, Milton Shulman and Valerie Grove, “and every desk had a secretary, invariably called Jacqui, from Essex, who looked after you”....
...Commuters face 341 daily services being cancelled, including peak-time trains to London from commuter centres such as Milton Keynes and Brighton, as well as off-peak trains to Gatwick airport....
...The parallel Victoria line cost about £90m in the 1960s (£1.5bn at current prices)....
...The palatial property was almost bought by Queen Victoria but she plumped for Osborne House on the Isle of Wight instead....
...The high point of botanical portraiture in America followed in 1854, when Sharp printed six studies of the Victoria regia water lily, reputed to be the most beautiful flowering species in the world....
...It follows the launch last month in London of two electric buses on routes between Victoria, Waterloo and London Bridge, with six more set to follow soon....
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