London property

The London house where Rolls-Royce’s co-founder Charles Rolls tinkered with his very first car is for sale at £17 million

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Charles Rolls was born into wealth and privilege. The son of a baron, he was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and as he turned 18 in 1895 he had the world at his feet. And what did he choose to do? He travelled to Paris and bought a car — the ultimate gadget for a … Read more

The factory that once fuelled the Victorians’ insatiable appetite for pianos has become a set of gorgeous, characterful apartments

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Most of our musical instruments have many centuries of history, handed down by countless generations. The violin and its variants have been with mankind for half a millennium. The guitar dates to medieval Spain. There are trumpets in the bible, and drums are almost as ancient as humankind: examples from 5500 BC have been discovered … Read more

A flat for sale in the building where Agatha Christie lived, and it’s both the most interesting and most affordable home for sale in Hampstead today

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The Modernist artists who based themselves in Hampstead in the 1930s had, it’s fair to say, a mixed reception from critics. At one show a critic wrote that ‘having paid two shillings and sixpence for seeing the exhibition, I would willingly pay five shillings for not having seen it.’ If if was rocky for the … Read more