It would be hard to pick a more bucolic English setting than Charleston Farmhouse in East Sussex. Once the home of Vanessa Bell, her lover Duncan Grant and, as was their modernist way, his lover David Garnett. This was a very unconventional household for 1916. Part of the Bloomsbury Group, they were some of the…
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Ancient Rye and The Barren Nuclear Wasteland of Dungeness
Eastwards along the south coast from Hastings lies the old sea port of Rye, founded in 1289 and a member of the Cinque Ports, a confederation of English Channel ports (Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich) dating back to around 1350. Rye, a royal dockyard and shipyard provided half of the ships and mariners…
Travels With My Ant 