Word: hemel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When British Garage Owner Arthur Lindley surveyed the creaking, pre-Elizabethan cottage he owns next door to his gasoline station at Piccott's End near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he saw a depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley...
Photographers last week collected an album of smiling royalty and rulers bending to the charms of the younger generation. On her first trip to Hemel Hempstead, northwest of London, where she laid the cornerstone for a new church, Queen Elizabeth II visited a new housing development where she captured the cool and undisguised admiration of one of her young subjects...