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cause of her dogâs excitement. (From where you are standing it is the left-most window on the fourth floor.) The general commotion attracted residents and passers-by alike, and it was soon established by better eyes than Mrs Chalmersâ that the parcel was in fact the lifeless body of a junior attaché to the Soviet Embassy, clad only in a twisted bed sheet tied around his ankles and by which he was suspended from the window.
The police were quickly summoned, and forced their entry into the apartment. There were found the bodies of Tory moralist Sir Roger Tealady MP, and society heiress Miss Lucy Montague-Tiese, whose property it was. All three were bound together at the ankles by bed linen, being otherwise clothed in rich layers of decaying yoghurt.
Because of the Soviet connection, a joint inquest was conducted with State secrecy, and its finding was cursorily published as deaths by misadventure. Misadventure! How the snigger press loved that. âAttachéâ was briefly defined to mean connected by the ankles with bed linen. But there was more. Run your eye up to the top-floor window directly above. Across its lintel there still exists a rusty cable, which can be traced over the roof and up the edge of the closest chimney. It was a crude short-wave radio aerial; the top apartment turned out to be a hastily evacuated Russian safe house and monitoring post. Misadventure in the Safe House, they sniggered. But there was more. The name of the hapless aide who misadventured from the window? Yuri Groynyich Kondomov. They should never have sent him to London.
Oriel Gardens has managed to keep out of the news for some decades now. Captain Kondomov is no longer a risqué cocktail, and yoghurt is boldly purchased by any English lady without a trace of self-consciousness. The building has properly reclaimed its place in the history of architecture, rather than of scandal. For a few years during the 1980s a ground-floor apartment wasperiodically opened for students and academics with an interest in design history.
In the mid-1990s the entire property was acquired by the Bokardo Trust, renamed Clement House, and extensively refurbished under the supervision of the EnrightâFitzwilliam architectural practice. The ground and first floors were remodelled into professional suites for medical specialists, with a new dedicated entry off Mingle Lane. Residents still access the upper floors using the original grand entrance and foyer off the square.
To see inside these days, you will need to befriend a resident or represent yourself as an interested party when an apartment is contracted for lease. Alternatively, you may wish to make an appointment with one of the several psychiatrists who keep rooms in its lower floors.
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There is a small plaque commemorating Lorca in the foyer. Though appearing to be soundly fixed to masonry there is a tradition that, from time to time, it falls to the ground.
In an odd parallel, Prescott also fell to his death, from a barn roof in Surrey.
Apart from pre-eminence in architecture, Lord Enright is an accomplished illustrator, linguist, and historian. His two-volume Runic Alphabetology is definitive. Most recently, his poetic translation (with E Knielsen ) of the Norse epic The Slaying of the Brothers Orsifal by the Brothers Parsifal is the most accessible account in English of the invention of dynastic murder.
The author is indebted to the publishers of FootNotes: A Walking Guide to Unpedestrian London (Walk No 17) for much of the information given here.
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HANGING ON, UP HIGH ... WALTER RECKLES IS NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME, AND AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING DOESNâT RATE AMONG THE WINNING CONVERSATION STARTERS AT A DINNER PARTY. ALL THAT MAY BE ABOUT TO CHANGE WITH THE PUBLICATION NEXT FALL OF HOW TO WALK AWAY FROM A MIDAIR COLLISION. AR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ANNA CAMENES FOUND THE AUTHOR AT HIS DESK IN A CONVERTED HANGAR OUT OF WHITE SANDS, NEW
The police were quickly summoned, and forced their entry into the apartment. There were found the bodies of Tory moralist Sir Roger Tealady MP, and society heiress Miss Lucy Montague-Tiese, whose property it was. All three were bound together at the ankles by bed linen, being otherwise clothed in rich layers of decaying yoghurt.
Because of the Soviet connection, a joint inquest was conducted with State secrecy, and its finding was cursorily published as deaths by misadventure. Misadventure! How the snigger press loved that. âAttachéâ was briefly defined to mean connected by the ankles with bed linen. But there was more. Run your eye up to the top-floor window directly above. Across its lintel there still exists a rusty cable, which can be traced over the roof and up the edge of the closest chimney. It was a crude short-wave radio aerial; the top apartment turned out to be a hastily evacuated Russian safe house and monitoring post. Misadventure in the Safe House, they sniggered. But there was more. The name of the hapless aide who misadventured from the window? Yuri Groynyich Kondomov. They should never have sent him to London.
Oriel Gardens has managed to keep out of the news for some decades now. Captain Kondomov is no longer a risqué cocktail, and yoghurt is boldly purchased by any English lady without a trace of self-consciousness. The building has properly reclaimed its place in the history of architecture, rather than of scandal. For a few years during the 1980s a ground-floor apartment wasperiodically opened for students and academics with an interest in design history.
In the mid-1990s the entire property was acquired by the Bokardo Trust, renamed Clement House, and extensively refurbished under the supervision of the EnrightâFitzwilliam architectural practice. The ground and first floors were remodelled into professional suites for medical specialists, with a new dedicated entry off Mingle Lane. Residents still access the upper floors using the original grand entrance and foyer off the square.
To see inside these days, you will need to befriend a resident or represent yourself as an interested party when an apartment is contracted for lease. Alternatively, you may wish to make an appointment with one of the several psychiatrists who keep rooms in its lower floors.
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There is a small plaque commemorating Lorca in the foyer. Though appearing to be soundly fixed to masonry there is a tradition that, from time to time, it falls to the ground.
In an odd parallel, Prescott also fell to his death, from a barn roof in Surrey.
Apart from pre-eminence in architecture, Lord Enright is an accomplished illustrator, linguist, and historian. His two-volume Runic Alphabetology is definitive. Most recently, his poetic translation (with E Knielsen ) of the Norse epic The Slaying of the Brothers Orsifal by the Brothers Parsifal is the most accessible account in English of the invention of dynastic murder.
The author is indebted to the publishers of FootNotes: A Walking Guide to Unpedestrian London (Walk No 17) for much of the information given here.
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FROM AVIATION REVIEWS
HANGING ON, UP HIGH ... WALTER RECKLES IS NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME, AND AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING DOESNâT RATE AMONG THE WINNING CONVERSATION STARTERS AT A DINNER PARTY. ALL THAT MAY BE ABOUT TO CHANGE WITH THE PUBLICATION NEXT FALL OF HOW TO WALK AWAY FROM A MIDAIR COLLISION. AR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ANNA CAMENES FOUND THE AUTHOR AT HIS DESK IN A CONVERTED HANGAR OUT OF WHITE SANDS, NEW
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