Lost Country Houses of Norfolk OG25 unique institution

unique institution

and happy to be so—though his dad worries

With energy

in which our hero looks down from the future at his squeaky realm of boyhood

Lost Country Houses of Norfolk OG25 unique institutionNorfolk is a county sadly rich in "lost" country houses; this account and gazetteer offer a comprehensive account of them. Winner of the general non fiction category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2016. The country houses lost from the landscape since the late nineteenth century exercise a peculiar grip on the English imagination, seeming to symbolise the passing of a world of taste and elegance, of stability and deference: a world destroyed by