It is said that St Augustine first founded a school here in 597AD and it became the King’s School in 1541 when it was re-founded by Royal Charter under...
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“A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted”. That’s what Sir Winston Churchill said about his family home near Westerham in Kent, which has been...
in Public Places - on 22/1/20
This delightful multi sports venue on the south coast was, and still is, part of the Duke of Devonshire’s estate, where in Victorian times the most expensive...
in Football - on 20/7/19
This non-selective boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3-13, set in thirty-two delightfully green acres on the southern fringe of Kent’s...
in People - on 17/6/19
Cricket has been played ‘in the back garden’ of one of England’s foremost stately homes for nearly 300 years. Neville Johnson paid a mid-winter...
in Cricket - on 18/3/19
Looking after the vast grounds at one of the country’s foremost independent schools for girls is a truly challenging task. Neville Johnson went there...
in Schools & Colleges - on 15/2/19
Exclusive Interview - It’s mid-September. The curtain is about to fall on the 2018 cricket season. One name in the game is about to leave perhaps its...
in Cricket - on 29/10/18
Only one football ground in the whole country has its nets on display at the National Football Museum. Neville Johnson looks at the relatively short history...
in Football - on 11/10/18
We visit a classic course where Surrey’s chalky hills offer views of southern England countryside and the London skyline has been sensitively modernised,...
in Golf - on 21/9/18
A Sussex country estate mentioned in the Domesday Book a thousand years ago, and world famous for its Capability Brown gardens, has an indelible and lasting...
in Cricket - on 3/8/18
England’s one-day cricket captain is an Irishman, but Eoin Morgan is not the only one from the Republic making a mark in the game. Neville Johnson went...
in Cricket - on 18/5/18
Henry VIII probably, and the Beatles definitely, ‘walked the course’ or at least part of what is regarded as one of England’s best golf course settings....
in Golf - on 8/4/18
Once the site of one of the country’s first holiday camps, this delightful course in the heart of the North Downs is set for a fresh beginning. Neville...
in Golf - on 16/2/18
There is a golf club like no other that has London’s 21st century skyline as a backdrop. It was the golfing ‘birthplace’ of one of this country’s...
in Golf - on 29/11/17
Once a county outground and with redevelopment plans to help get May’s Bounty back on the Hampshire fixture list, cricket owes it a debt of gratitude....
in Cricket - on 13/10/17
A few years ago, the school report might have read: superb academic record and at the forefront of classroom innovation, yet a bit of an under achiever...
in Football - on 14/7/17
First class outground cricket may be dwindling, but Middlesex is one county where there will always be a need. Neville Johnson went pre-season to the outer...
in Cricket - on 2/6/17
There’s a golf course reputed to be one of the finest in the country, yet played by so few that its course manager, Pete Smith, refers to it as a greenkeeping...
in Golf - on 7/4/17