ENGLISH LABOUR COUNTESS.
OLD HOME USED FOR PARTY. POPULAR WEEK-END RESORT. A little way from Dunmow, on the border of Essex and Hertfordshire, stands an old house in a 6pacious park. All round it are radiant gardens, Paradise of flowers and sheltered paths, with a sunken pond fringed with broad - flagstones, and statues keeping 'guard over the cool and silent water.
The house is called Easton Lodge, and it belongs to the Countess of Warwick, but she has given it up for the use of members of the Labour Party r to which she belongs. They can go down in charabancs and spend the day in peaceful enjoyment of its beauties, or, if they wish, can stay the week-end in historic rooms where famous, men and women of other days enjoyed the hospitality of an ancient family. In order to supervise the comfort of her guests, without making them ill at ease, Lady Warwick lives over her stables.
Easton Lodge is not a big house. There are no wonders of architecture or decoration such as are found at Chats worth and Blenhsim. But it is a lovely, ivy-clad, Eheltered haven of rest, and weary eyes grow glad at the sight of it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18861, 8 November 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)
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202ENGLISH LABOUR COUNTESS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18861, 8 November 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)
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