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    The Brock Library by Iskander Mathews

    Denison Saumarez Brock (1922-1980) OW, of the Brock Library, was a principled, God-fearing man admired by many for his sincere, candid and inward nature. Brock was a man truly forever bound by the so-called “Westminster Bubble”, having gone to Westminster as a pupil when he was 13 years old to study Mathematics and Physics, then for a short while went…

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    Ashburnham Garden by Ben Goodrick-Green and William Mirza

    Today, behind Ashburnham House, stands a small, arcane and beautiful garden. Yet at one time this was the site of a grand monastic frater or refectory. All that remains in the present day is its North, East and West walls, the West only a ruin. The exact date of the first foundations is unclear, but it is known that one…