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...postcard was signed by a onetime music critic, George Bernard Shaw, who had had a long talk with Rayinski one day after hearing him play outside Shaw's house in Ayot Saint Lawrence...
...British government announced that George Bernard Shaw's fussy old Victorian house at Ayot St. Lawrence would be kept as a national shrine. Housekeeper Alice Laden promised to keep everything just as Shaw left it, including his prized photographs of Gandhi, Lenin, Stalin and Ibsen, which line the dining room mantelpiece...
Briskly he passes on to another Ayot tourist attraction, the house of Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII...
Shaw takes the visitor on a 59-picture tour of Ayot (rhymes, according to Shaw, with say it). Beginning at his own gateway, over which the local blacksmith has wrought an iron notice, "Shaw's Corner," he moves on to the churchyard which first drew him to Ayot. Two world wars have intervened and he notes another tombstone...
...lines were written last spring when Shaw, seven years short of his target centenary and bored with old age, was to be seen stumping about Ayot Saint Lawrence with a contax camera. Neighbors watched him focus on the village show places. "That must be hard work, sir," said Postmistress Jisbella Lyth. Tiring, said Shaw. Last week the village had a chance to see Shaw's photographs. Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (price one shilling)* went on sale in Mrs. Lyth's post-office shop...