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Quotes & Queries (01/12) by Alan Smith
5976 Kester George, of the captain of the Athenaeum Club’s chess team, recalls the following: For four years after WWII, from 1947-1951, my family lived at Thorington House next to Thorington Hall, a 16th-17th century …
Royal Opera House
Opera and chess? No! Ballet and Lewis Carroll. Dancing vegetables, playing cards all set in Victorian Oxford. Nicholas Wright’s adaptation lacks the eponymous heroine’s descent into Wonderland, but begins with tea, wobbling jellies and Jack …
