Author: jamesmulraine
Art Historian and Dealer in the British Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century
‘Game Over Fascist Clown’… but not quite yet; ‘Beware the wrath of God’, a lovely walk at Patcham Place.
Squadron Leader Kenneth Clack DFC DFM (d.1944), my grandfather’s pilot on the Tirpitz raids.
An Eighteenth Century package holiday; France, Belgium and Germany, three months on £100.
Castle ghosts; Country house ghosts; townhouse ghosts at Grandma’s and at my parents’
A knight in armour under the whitewash at Hornton Church, and there might just be room for his horse.
Margery de Verdun, Sir John de Verdon and a horse called Grisel de Coloigne: the Hornton Saint George, a portrait of the Black Prince? On second thoughts, I reckon it could be.
The Long Man of Wilmington, Genius of the Place, monument to Spencer Compton 2nd Earl of Northampton?
Sir William Pickering (c.1517 – 1575): ‘The finest gentleman of his age’, the bookies’ favourite to marry Queen Elizabeth I in 1559
