‘The human quality of the building lingers with one like a choice flavour; like a portrait by a fine painter, one wants to know the sitter;’1 Standen’s ‘human quality’ impressed the architect, Halsey Ricardo when he visited the house on […] [...]
The Lake Poets
We couldn’t visit the Lake District without mentioning the Lake Poets, as they in large part were the ones who popularised the area. The most important were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. Dorothy Wordsworth should also be mentioned as, although not published in her lifetime, she provided much of the inspiration for […] Read More >