Dick Turpin's Lair
As a recipe for romance, take an ancient wayside inn, mix in a few highwaymen, a secret hiding place, a secret passage, a hoard of ill-gotten gains, a stage coach or two;and about 500 years. Stir well, and leave to cool in an old village on a Roman soad. I felt all this as I entered the ancient tavern, "The Chandos Arms." I could imagine blustery nights and Dick Turpin giving "a rap upon the shutters." "A great place this must ’a bin in tho days of those old stage coaches and ’ostlers and ‘ighwaymen and all o’ them," said my guide. "It was all forest ’exe, you know, and Edgeware was the first halt on the North road from London. And," she added, "there’s still bits of an ancient passage which connected this with Canon’s Park, the Duke of Chandos’ place." And then off we went an a weird tour-through the Old Dart Room, the dim kitchen where everything was crooked — crooked ceilings, crooked beams, crooked windows, crooked curtains, We groped our way to the stairs. "Mind your head," "mind that step," "mind the drips." Suddenly my guide scared mie horribly by banging on the wall with both fists-" There is an old secret room here, goodness knows what it was used for-somethinz gruesome I expect. It has no windows and is as black as pitch."-(" Little Adventures in Music: Handel and a Highwayman." Valerie Corliss, 2YA, May 12.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 3
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243Dick Turpin's Lair New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 3
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