EDITOR’S
NEWS R EVIEWS SNI PP E T S
CAPABILITY BROWN MASTERPIECE REOPENS
Croome Court is the 18th-century mansion house where Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown proved his potential as an architect and a landscape gardener. The project to remodel both the house and the surrounding estate of Croome Park was Brown’s first major commission in 1751 and helped establish his reputation alongside Robert Adam, who designed many of the Court’s impressive interiors. While the National Trust-owned landscape has
been enjoyed by visitors since 1996, the house was acquired by Croome Heritage Trust in 2007 and you can now explore six of the ground floor rooms, including the Long Gallery created by Robert Adam, and the Saloon where the 6th Earl of Coventry entertained King George III. The National Trust is currently raising funds so they can open the rest of the house to the public.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ croomepark.
50TH BIRTHDAY OF BLUEBELL RAILWAY
In 1960, the volunteer-run Bluebell Railway, the UK’s first preserved standard gauge passenger railway, ran its first trains from Sheffield Park station in East Sussex to just outside Horsted Keynes. Fifty years on and the line has been extended to Kingscote and will soon reach the old market town of East Grinstead. The steam locomotive collection has grown from the original two locos to a fleet of over 30 locomotives and 100
carriages and wagons. This year there’s a calender of 50th birthday events planned, including special visits by those stars of steam – the oldest (Furness Railway No 20, built in 1863) and the newest (the Peppercorn A1 Tornado, completed in 2008) steam main-line
engines. Tel: (01825) 720825;
www.bluebell-railway.co.uk.
22 BRITAIN
A FISHY STORY IN CORNWALL
Cornish sardines are the latest British product to gain European Union protection as a traditional and regional food speciality under the ‘protected designation of origin’ programme. They are the 40th UK food, joining the likes of Stilton cheese, Cornish Clotted Cream and Whitstable Oysters.
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www.jewishmuseum.org.uk.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk.
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