Henry Cockburn pays a visit to Lord Fairhaven’s enormous sartorial collection at Anglesey Abbey. © National Trust Images Anglesey Abbey only plays at being a National Trust property. In truth, it is something far stranger. Legion are those obstinate houses, prized from the brittle, mummified grip of thoroughbred Normans so that we, thermos-bearing Saxon–Socialists may…
An association between a 1960s blues guitar legend and an English country clothing store seems unlikely, but it is just this odd, eccentric twist on the traditional that makes Cordings of Piccadilly unique among its Jermyn Street neighbours. Eric Clapton became co-owner of Cordings in 2003, but that milestone was only one of many in…
