The Steeple Times

Tag: May 2017

  • Basement It Like Beckham

    Basement It Like Beckham

    Former Algerian Embassy in Holland Park for sale for £30 million; the detached stucco house needs complete renovation and counts David and Victoria Beckham as neighbours

     

    The former Embassy of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria in Holland Park, W11 has just been placed for sale for the sum of £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million).

     

    Offered by estate agent Anthony Sharp, the 9,490 square foot, Grade II listed detached stucco house includes accommodation over five floors and was built in 1862. One of remaining Italianate villas designed by brothers Francis and William Radford, 54 Holland Park is described as being “in need of full modernisation” and as having “scope to create a magnificent family home”.

     

    The buyer will count David and Victoria Beckham as near neighbours. They paid £31.5 million ($41.1 million, €36.6 million or درهم150.9 million) for 23 Holland Park in 2013 and finally took up residence there in July 2016 after completing an £8 million ($10.4 million, €9.3 million or درهم38.3 million) renovation that included, amongst other things, a vast subterranean redevelopment.

     

    Basement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony Sharp Basement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony Sharp

  • A Highly Priced Hall

    A Highly Priced Hall

    Queen Anne house in South Yorkshire for sale for punchy sum of £1.2 million

     

    An architecturally striking four-storey Queen Anne house in South Yorkshire is for sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) in spite of standing on a small plot that is overlooked by its now converted former outbuildings.

     

    Originally built circa 1720 and Grade II listed since 1968, The Hall at High Hoyland, near Barnsley is built of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. It has many original features, provides 4 reception rooms, 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and has gardens to both front and rear.

     

    The Hall is offered by the England Residential Estate Agency.

     

    A Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate Agency A Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate AgencyA Highly Priced Hall – The Hall, Church Lane, High Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4BJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £1.2 million ($1.6 million, €1.4 million or درهم5.7 million) through England Residential Estate Agency

  • Hannah, Soleil and Winter Strafford-Taylor

    Hannah, Soleil and Winter Strafford-Taylor

    Narcissist and “yummy mummy” Hannah Strafford-Taylor describes herself as “Instagram’s most stylish mum” to her 8,600 followers. Mocked as a “plastic clichéd fool using her bizarrely named daughters [Soleil and Winter] as accessories”, Mrs Strafford-Taylor told the Mail Online: “My husband says I have my own unique currency of holidays. I compare everything to the price of a holiday. My favourite place in the world is the Maldives” in January 2017. Of her one commentator remarked: “Well, she loves herself a bit too much” whilst another concluded: “Another bragging Brit, we can all do that”.

     

  • Fergus and Judith Wilson

    Fergus and Judith Wilson

    Fat former boxer and Toad of Toad Hall-like figure of fun Fergus Wilson and his equally badly dressed Hyacinth Bucket-like wife, a former maths teacher named Judith, banned “coloured people” from renting the 1,000 properties they own in Kent “because of the curry smell at the end of the tenancy”. They were also revealed to refuse to let housing to “battered wives”, single parents and zero-hours workers in March 2017 and of them, the advocacy group Hope Not Hate remarked: “It’s almost as if [they have] taken a tick box to offend every vulnerable group in Britain”.

     

    When taken to trial for using a mobile phone whilst driving, racehorse owning Mr Wilson – who also has a conviction for assaulting an estate agent – was fined £565 after ridiculously trying to claim he “was singing into a drinks carton that he was holding to the side of his head”.

     

    The name of one of their horses – ‘Gone Too Far’ – sums up the most recent actions of this widely disliked duo perfectly.

     

    Badly dressed bigoted property tycoons Fergus and Judith Wilson – Fat former boxer Fergus Wilson and his badly dressed Hyacinth Bucket-like wife banned “coloured people” from renting from them in Kent

  • Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017)

    Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017)

    Wacky Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of the same name as the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge. Bayldon also played ‘Q’ in Casino Royale in 1967, was gay, turned down the role of Dr Who twice thinking the series “too long” and enjoyed collecting watercolour paintings, gardening and walking.

     

    Wacky, gay actor and Catweazle star Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017) – Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of same name. He turned down playing Dr Who twice Wacky, gay actor and Catweazle star Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017) – Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of same name. He turned down playing Dr Who twice Wacky, gay actor and Catweazle star Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017) – Leeds born actor Geoffrey Bayldon was best known for playing Catweazle in the 1970s series of same name. He turned down playing Dr Who twice

  • Spirit & Speed

    Spirit & Speed

    Chelsea studio house built for “spiritual artist” Arild Rosenkrantz and later home to the extremely eccentric lesbian heiress and powerboater ‘Joe’ Carstairs for sale for £8.95 million

     

    “Spiritual seeker” and artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) was born in Denmark, studied in Rome and married his Scottish cousin, Louise Mackenzie, in 1901. His commissions included ceiling panels at Claridge’s Hotel in Mayfair and illustrating the Danish edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery Adventure and now a Chelsea home built for him is for sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million).

     

    Designed by the Maidenhead based architect Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) and Grade II listed since 1997, red brick built, 4-storey 5 Mulberry Walk is described as being of a “stripped Classical Mannerist style”. It features the artist’s initials on the rectangular profile downpipe and was his home from when it was finished until 1922.

     

    Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson
    Baron Arild Rosenkrantz and one of his works
    Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson
    Marion ‘Joe Carstairs’ once remarked: “I was never a little girl. I came out of the womb queer”; of her biographer Kate Summerscale added: “She was blithe, bold, courageous, unself-conscious, imperialist, impervious to social change”

     

    Subsequently sold to the eccentric and extremely masculine heiress Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) for £3,000 in the early 1920s (the equivalent of just £167,000, $215,000, €197,000 or درهم791,000 today), 5 Mulberry Walk became the party venue for the “fastest, artiest, gayest, not to mention the most alcoholic and drug-addicted set in London at the time”. Carstairs – a lesbian described as “usually dressed as a man, having tattooed arms, and loving machines, adventure and speed” – remained there well into the 1930s and even had a name plaque for a doll she was obsessed with, ‘Lord Tod Wadley’, placed on the building’s door.

     

    Extending to 3,163 square foot in total, 5 Mulberry Walk is currently divided into two apartments. The first, a ground floor studio with a 32-foot wide garden, has 1 bedroom whilst the second covers three floors and has 4 bedrooms. Each has a large artist’s studio space and in total there are 2 kitchens, 3 bathrooms and a roof terrace as well.

     

    5 Mulberry Walk, which is most definitely ready for modernisation and reconfiguration internally, is offered by Russell Simpson.

     

    Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell SimpsonSpirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson Spirit & Speed – 5 Mulberry Walk, London, SW3 6DZ, United Kingdom – Built to designs of Clifton Robert Davy (1879 – 1929) for “spiritual seeker” artist Baron Arild Rosenkrantz (1870 – 1964) and later home to eccentric and extremely masculine heiress and powerboater Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs (1900 – 1993) – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.5 million, €10.6 million or درهم42.4 million) through Russell Simpson

  • Nick Harrington

    Nick Harrington

    Racist Tory councillor Nick Harrington tweeted: “You can keep your f***ing gypsies” after Ireland gave Britain ‘nul points’ in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. The bigot, magistrate and director of Ambay Software Ltd. then added: “Hard border coming folks!” but showed no remorse when contacted at his £400,000 home in Weston-under-Wetherley, near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Though Harrington was subsequently suspended by the Conservative Party and has now taken his Twitter account down, other social media users subsequently exposed previously highly inappropriate posts that this vile shocker had made elsewhere .

     

    Racist Tory councillor and director of Ambay Software Nick Harrington – Bigot Nick Harrington tweeted: “You can keep your f***ing gypsies” after Ireland gave Britain ‘nul points’ in Eurovision Song Contest.Racist Tory councillor and director of Ambay Software Nick Harrington – Bigot Nick Harrington tweeted: “You can keep your f***ing gypsies” after Ireland gave Britain ‘nul points’ in Eurovision Song Contest.

  • Hero of the Hour – Chuka Umunna

    Hero of the Hour – Chuka Umunna

    Chuka Umunna MP speaks sense on Britain’s membership of the Single Market

     

    This morning, Chuka Umunna spoke for many when he was interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme.

     

    The Labour MP commented:

     

    We’re saying from the point of view of London where you’ve got over 600,000 jobs that are linked to our membership of the Single Market, whether you voted to Remain or Leave, you didn’t vote to be poorer.

     

    Our membership of the Single Market was not on the ballot as it were, during that EU Referendum campaign. We’re saying that yes you can be outside of the European Union and be in the Customs Union, like Turkey for example and you be outside the European Union and in the Single Market like Norway.

     

    You can actually reform the ways freedom of movement works within that context. For example, at the moment there’s one thing that we don’t do that could do now under free movement rules – which have never, by the way, been unconditional. So, for example, if somebody comes here, and they’ve been here for three months, they haven’t got work, and there’s no prospects of that, they can be asked to leave. We don’t do that at the moment.

     

    And there are counties in the Single Market like, for example, Lichtenstein who have actually been able to apply quotas to the number of EU citizens coming. So, I don’t accept this kind of binary explanation of how things work.

     

    We can actually stay in the Single Market, have the benefits it brings but also reform the way our immigration arrangements work.

     

    Yesterday, Umunna was joined by sixteen general election candidates to launch a pamphlet called Stop Hard Brexit: Why London needs the Single Market. He should be saluted for this bold move and for his wise words today also.

     

  • The Best 4x4xFar

    The Best 4x4xFar

    Immaculate 1993 Land Rover Range Vogue for sale; its price will astound but its condition will impress

     

    An immaculately presented twenty-four year old Range Rover has gone on sale for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200).

     

    Offered by West London based Graeme Hunt, the 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre is boldly described as “an absolute cracker” and has passed through the firm’s hands twice. The grey with tan interior car has every conceivable extra, an upgraded stereo and a Brooklands body kit.

     

    The present owner, one of Graeme Hunt’s “most endearing and trusting customers”, acquired the vehicle three years ago and “embarked on a stratospheric restoration – a restoration upon which he chose to put his mark on, and in an indulgent manner”. The result is a luxury car complete with carpeting more befitting of a Scottish castle than Kensington and a definite future classic.

     

    The Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range RoverThe Best 4x4xFar – 1993 Land Rover Range Rover Classic Vogue LSE 4.2-litre – For sale through Graeme Hunt for £42,500 ($54,800, €50,100 or درهم201,200) – Immaculate classic Range Rover

  • Bob Marshall-Andrews QC

    Bob Marshall-Andrews QC

    A “libertarian-left” Labour MP between 1997 and 2010, distinguished barrister and novelist Bob Marshall-Andrews defected to the Liberal Democrats in 2017. Described as “an irritant” to his former party whilst they were in government, multi-millionaire Marshall-Andrews built and owns “one of the most innovative houses of the 20th century – the famed ‘Teletubby House’ in Druidston, Pembrokeshire – and is chairman of the George Adamson Wildlife Trust. In 2013, of him, Chambers Legal Directory remarked: “Juries love him… I’ve never seen a jury eat out of anyone’s hand as much” whilst he amusingly references himself as “the complete antidote to political humbug”. Of Labour, this “intellectually brilliant” individual added: “They’re a basket case…They effectively abdicated all responsibility [on Brexit]”.

     

    Bob Marshall-Andrews QC – Barrister, former Labour MP and novelist Bob Marshall-Andrews QC – Barrister, former Labour MP and novelist