TURF OUT
Following on from my last blog post, I should explain that my narrow-boat idyll came to an end last summer. I never mastered the hand-cranked engine. I picked up a bug on the canal and passed a squalid few days moored on the Grand Union …
Shortly before the First World War Borwick Hall in North Lancashire acquired a wealthy and controversial new tenant — a man who had publicly compared the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan to a circus elephant and who, in turn, was accused by Sir Edward Elgar of …