Country diary 1951: Into the woods on the capital’s edge
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9 May 1951: Walking among fine oaks and beeches it is difficult to realise that one is so near to the sprawling mass of Greater LondonLONDON: Early this morning a cuckoo was calling from the outskirts of a wood in south London a bare five miles from the Festival of Britain Exhibition on the South Bank. Yesterday evening a swift flew by; and the day before a late swallow hurried over in the wake of a storm. It is difficult to realise as one enters the wood and walks among its fine oaks and beeche
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