For all that they had in common, Bowra and George Alfred Kolkhorst were avowed arch-enemies, though both were friends of John Betjeman.

Betjeman was a quietly ironic poet of Middle England with a fine command of a wide range of verse techniques.

Polzeath was a favourite haunt of the late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman and is celebrated in some of his verse.

He was educated at Marlborough College, where he joined the College's secret ' Society of Amici ', in which he was a contemporary of Louis MacNeice ( whose unfinished autobiography The Strings are False contains numerous references to Blunt ), John Betjeman and Graham Shepard.

Alan Watts's autobiography, In My Own Way ( 1972 ), starts with the sentence: " Topophilia is a word invented by the British poet John Betjeman for a special love for peculiar places.

* The poem Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman.

Pembroke was described by John Betjeman, in Summoned by Bells:

John Betjeman, mentions Horace in Chapter III " Highgate " of his autobiographical blank-verse poem Summoned by Bells:

A volume of poems by John Betjeman, for example, was returned to the library with a new dustjacket featuring a photograph of a nearly naked, heavily tattooed, middle-aged man.

A book of nonsense poems, Rhymes Without Reason, was published in 1944 and was described by John Betjeman as " outstanding ".

The church of St John the Divine, Kennington, which was to be described by the poet John Betjeman as " the most magnificent church in South London ", was designed by George Edmund Street ( architect of the Royal Courts of Justice on Strand, London ), and was built between 1871 and 1874.

For some, this consensus was tied up with a concern for social welfare reform ( typified by the Beveridge Report ), as typified in the motto if we can build better, we can live better ; for others, such as John Betjeman it was a more conservative objection to the changing character of existing towns.

* The town is referred to by once poet laureate John Betjeman in the following lines:

Huddersfield railway station is a Grade I listed building and was described by John Betjeman as ' the most splendid station facade in England ' second only to St Pancras, London.

Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance ( 1550 – 1625 ), with elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.

* The 1973 documentary Metroland by Sir John Betjeman contains an opening scene in Horsted Keynes buffet, and shots in a he Metropolitan carriages.

Having felt desperately hard-done-by the ITA, and in the fits of a corporate tantrum, the company showed their final display of anger by closing down with Come To An End, a reflective epilogue with John Betjeman, who had made several films for the station, paying tribute to the personnel, programmes and achievements of TWW ( which Betjeman affectionately referred to as Tellywelly ).

This period saw the beginning of a closures protest movement led by the Railway Development Association, whose most famous member was the poet John Betjeman.

The attempts made to preserve the earlier building, championed by the later Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, led to the formation of The Victorian Society and heralded in the modern conservation movement.

* Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall from old photographs, London: Batsford, 1974 ( Introduction and commentaries by Rowse ; ten extracts from Betjeman )

) Here is his parody of John Betjeman, who had become choked with emotion on being presented the Duff Cooper Prize comprising a cheque for £ 150 and a copy of Duff Cooper's memoirs bound in leather, by Princess Margaret on 18 December 1958: Green with lust and sick with shyness,

Also, his relationship with his teddy bear, Aloysius, was inspired by John Betjeman and his teddy bear Archibald Ormsby-Gore.

The Church of St Edward ( 1903 ), described by Betjeman as " a mini-cathedral of the Arts and Crafts movement ", was built from local materials by local labour, under the direction of Randall Wells, clerk of works at All Saints, Brockhampton-by-Ross.

Stockport Town Hall designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas, has a ballroom described by John Betjeman as ' magnificent ' containing the largest Wurlitzer theatre organ in Britain.

At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice ; at Oxford Stephen Spender, and he also came across W. H. Auden.

This was put down to the " attractions of Victoriana ", which, like suburbia itself, championed at the time by Betjeman ’ s Metro-land, was coming back into fashion ; however, it appeared to have just as much to do with couples following each other round in order to maintain extramarital affairs.

He encouraged John Betjeman, the press attaché, to establish friendly relations with leading and rising figures in the Dublin literary world like Patrick Kavanagh ; Maffey himself suggested the subject for one of Kavanagh's poems.

The RHN has always been helped and supported by high profile figures, including Florence Nightingale ; author Charles Dickens ; poet, John Betjeman ; Thomas Hardy the poet and author ; Otto Goldschmidt the pianist ; and HRH Queen Elizabeth II.

John Betjeman, who for a time was in love with her, referred to her as the " Rural Mitford ".

Sir John Betjeman, however, a man not noted for his enthusiasm for brutalist architecture, was effusive in his praise and wrote to Lasdun stating that he " gasped with delight at the cube of your theatre in the pale blue sky and a glimpse of St. Paul's to the south of it.

Ironically recorded at the Granville Theatre in London, Betjeman closed the epilogue and the station with these words:

Snow was particularly annoyed as a television firm had arranged to film him at Lord's to make a fifteen minute programme with John Betjeman about his poem Lords ' Test, which was now cancelled.

They could then make a fifteen minute programme about his poem with John Betjeman, but this was cancelled when Snow was dropped for ill-discipline.

Major artists whose work is associated with Deep England include: the writer Thomas Hardy, the painter John Constable, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, and the poets Rupert Brooke and Sir John Betjeman.

Humphries was good friends with the English poet John Betjeman until Betjeman ’ s death in 1984.

He collaborated with many others, including the poet John Betjeman ( on the Shell Guides ), as well as with the potter Geoffrey Eastop and the artist Ben Nicholson.

Prince Charles compared it to a nuclear power station but it was popular with other traditionalists, with John Betjeman writing Lasdun a letter in praise of its design.

The story of Watkin's Tower is recounted briefly in the 1973 BBC documentary by Sir John Betjeman, Metro-land, which also shows some of the unsuccessful designs for the tower.

The district inspired the former poet laureate Sir John Betjeman to write a poem entitled ' An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield ' which draws on the large stone houses, steel industry and hilly landscapes of the city.

Though Pevsner's ambition for the series was to educate and inform the general public on the subtleties of English architectural history, the immediate commercial imperative was competition with the Shell Guides edited by John Betjeman of which thirteen had been published by 1939.

His house is in St John's Wood which was visited by John Betjeman in his film Metro-land.

This was followed in 1955 by The Lady in the Tower, and, in 1957, by another love story, A Girl Among Poets, which won praise from Sir John Betjeman, who wrote of the author's " gift for describing farcical situations ".

In an episode of the David Frost Show in the 1960s during a discussion about death, which also involved poet John Betjeman, Williamson revealed that he was very much afraid of dying, saying that " I think of death constantly, throughout the day " and that " I don't think there is anything after this, except complete oblivion.

John Betjeman, writing in The Daily Telegraph, considered that " Ian Fleming has discovered the secret of the narrative art ... which is to work up to a climax unrevealed at the end of each chapter.

The arch's imminent demolition sparked a preservation protest in which Woodrow Wyatt, John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were prominent figures, and a wider debate about the modernisation of central London.