27 AUGUST 1954, page 6

Railway Flavours

One of the first things I hope that the reorganised British Railways will do is restore the names to the old companies. They might give back the Great Western its name and......

A Spectator's Notebook

A UGUST has known few sadder sights than the seaside towns of England this year. I was in Devon last week, that once beautiful county now heavy with the scent of petrol and......

Depression Over Europe

T HE British, American and German Governments have decided that this is not the moment to admit that the European Defence Community is dying, any more than it is the time to......

St. Mary's, Sandwich

I was standing in an old country church these holidays when two elderly men in shorts and with walking sticks and haver- sacks came in to examine it. One was smoking a pipe and......

Right Sir

At my public school the most unsympathetic schoolmasteg it has ever been my misfortune to come across, said to 00 when returning one of my essays, Betjeman, do you want tf end......

Beautiful Eighteenth-century Church Of Holy Trinity,...

the heart of that city and is, as it were, the St. Martin's-in-the-Fields of those crowded industrial streets. The church is in good repair and has an adequate endowment and......