Staunton Notebook – July 2021

“Few heed the warning of a distant drum.” I’d been hearing for several years about a disease in Wales which was killing the larch trees. But Wales is a long way off and anyway theirs were ‘Jap’ larch, while ours are mainly European. We should be OK. Not any longer. I...

Staunton Notebook – June 2021

It is more than three hundred years since the first earl began to make Staunton Hall into a stately home In that time the Ferrers family and others must have hosted hundreds of grand celebrations here, including a fair sprinkling of masked balls. Surely never, until...