On Sunday I did the first leg of a walk along the North Downs Way/Pilgrims Way. It goes past Canterbury Cathedral and ends up at Dover. It starts in Farnham. There are 8 of us who do this walk – four couples – and we have just completed walking from the source of the Thames…
As Baroness d’Souza touches upon in her earlier post, the original Parliament buildings, other than Westminster Hall, were destroyed by fire in 1834. In their place, a new Palace of Westminster, designed by Charles Barry, was constructed. There remains a fire risk, but in the history of the Palace that has not been the only challenge. In…
