Monthly Archives: January 2013

The second issue of The Brewery, the intellectual journal published by freud communications, edited by Ed Amory, is even more interesting than the debut issue which was quietly launched at Davos last year. Like Upton Cressett, The Brewery is set in the grounds of a historic Elizabethan house. But that is very much where any similarities end […]

Over Christmas, I was reading a battered old copy of Sir John Betjeman’s ‘Shell Guide to Shropshire’ – published in 1951 – in which he describes Upton Cressett as a ‘remote and beautiful place’. He travelled here in 1938 with the artist John Piper in a clapped out old Morris which must have seriously struggled along the winding […]