Sir John Betjeman, CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until...
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The statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras railway station, London is a depiction in bronze by the sculptor Martin Jennings. The statue was designed and...
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Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984) was a twentieth-century English poet, writer and broadcaster. Born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead, he attended...
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The Tower House (section Betjeman to Turnbull, 1962–69)
H. Minshall and then, in 1933, to Colonel E. R. B. Graham. The poet John Betjeman inherited the remaining lease in 1962 but did not extend it. Following...
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Trebetherick (category John Betjeman)
Trebetherick before crossing the River Camel to Hawkers Cove. As a child, John Betjeman (who would later become Poet Laureate) enjoyed family holidays in Trebetherick...
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collections. Piper collaborated with many others, including the poets John Betjeman and Geoffrey Grigson on the Shell Guides, the potter Geoffrey Eastop...
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Penelope Chetwode (redirect from Penelope Valentine Hester Betjeman)
daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode, and the wife of poet laureate Sir John Betjeman. She was born at Aldershot and grew up in northern India, returning...
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BBC documentary by the then Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, Metro-land. In the programme, Betjeman described Watkin's vision of creating an engineering...
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Rampant Lions Press, and the John Roberts Press. Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in December 1984, following Sir John Betjeman. A collection of his animal...
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(Party Going), Dorothy Sayers (Murder Must Advertise), and the poet John Betjeman. Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies, adapted as the 2003 film Bright...
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