PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge I came upon these dust sheets in one of the unrestored rooms at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. The wallpaper was stained...

click photo to enlarge I've long felt that the UK's country houses are largely stuffed with expensive tat, objects that serve no p...

click photo to enlarge When I was young the words "pantry" and "larder" were often heard. My parents used both of them...

click photo to enlarge I recently went to Belton House for the first time. This large country house is now in the care of the National Tr...

click photo to enlarge I don't keep abreast of fashion in interior design: it changes too often for the flimsiest of reasons for my...

click photo to enlarge Much of the past that is presented to us in film and television, print and the web is a heavily sanitized version...

click photo to enlarge A couple of weeks ago I was cutting my side of a conifer hedge that separates part of our garden from a neighbour...

click photo to enlarge The first time I saw Nevill Holt in Leicestershire was when I'd cycled up out of the Welland Valley from Drayton...

click photo to enlarge Quite a few visitors to Britain are surprised by some of the castles they see. If they go to Bodiam in Sussex, and s...

click photo to enlarge Anglesey Abbey , a country house near the village of Lode, Cambridgeshire, is now in the care of the National Trust. ...