The silhouette of the ancient Carlisle Fort appeared on the skyline as we walked up the sloping pavement. We were in the quiet town of Carlisle in North England, Britain’s most besieged border town, in the past. Carlisle Fort is the first fort on Roman Emperor Hadrian’s Wall commencing from Bowness-on-Solway, which was built to […]

Walking past panoramic emerald vistas – green meadows meeting sapphire sky, we approached the Greys Court family home. This was at one point of time a Castle, maybe a thousand years ago! Crunching ahead on the gravel path we caught the first view of the three storey brick and stone Elizabethan house from late 16th […]

Evading the speedy life of the nearby London city we walked up the ancient Holly Hill towards the attractive yet unpretentious Fenton House. It has been named after one of its early 19th century owners. We were about to discover its fine collections spanning four centuries since 1686 AD to finally being with the National […]

Admiring the beautiful 18th century sketch of the Red Lion family Pub, it was easy for me to decipher that today too; similarities do exist except for the Horse-carriage. I was in Knotty-Green, Buckinghamshire England. We were on trail of the early 20th century celebrated English writer of children’s books – Enid Blyton whose house […]

Rummaging through the heaps of children’s books at the book fair held in Delhi’s Pragati Maidan and finding stacks of titles by writer Enid Blyton, my thoughts reverted to a summer day in England.  It transported my mind to those times when we had visited Enid’s former home, the 16th century Old Thatch cottage, wrapped […]

On a rainy summer day, we stepped back into the Victorian era to relive memories of world renowned scientist Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of apes to humans – The Origin of Species at his family home – Down House in Kent England. Down House was an early 18th century ‘a good old and […]

Whether it is Christmas time in the snowy landscaped cold winter or the cool summer holiday months, a trip to Canterbury in England is always exceptional. This renowned Church town in England, holds the medieval Canterbury Cathedral. The historical, yet new in its own way, modern city of Canterbury captivates thousands of tourists and  pilgrims, […]

Across the sapphire blue of a lake we caught the first stunning view of the 19th century Cragside house on a hill slope and acres of rugged woodland, spectacularly located. We were in Northumberland England and had set out to explore the first home to be lit by hydroelectricity – Cragside house of Lord Armstrong […]

On an annual visit to England I speculated on the aspect of novelty that I could append to it. The answer immediately emerged as I came out of the Windsor Railway Station. I noticed two similar pictures on a Wall – of verdant emerald English landscape, one with a Church in the forefront and the […]

We drove through the beautiful Oxfordshire valley towards ‘the preserved in time’ Chastleton house, the early 17thcentury Jacobean house. The grand ancestry of the magnificent interior house struggled to preserve it for four centuries till it had to be finally sold in 1991 that made the last owner say ‘poverty is a great preservative’ as […]