Last weekend we journeyed down to Norfolk to stay with Christine. She lives in a tiny village called Stanfield. My young friend had heard of the Urban Jungle where she intended to buy more exotic plants to add to her ‘jungle’ area in her garden.  We weren’t disappointed and were soon wandering around the most interesting garden centre […]

During the last war Leavesden Aerodrome, a local airfield and factory, produced fighter planes for the Ministry of Defence, and in later years it became a production centre for Rolls Royce aircraft engines. When it closed in 1994 Leavesden began a major transformation. Hangars became sound stages for filming and workshops for constructing sets and […]