a house in Hampstead by James Thirsk

In about 1953 when my wife and I were visiting my father and mother in the Cortswolds, Dad suddenly said on the way back from a car ride, that he would take us to see his first cousin Dr Clow, who lived in a village nearby. We had interesting talks with Dr Clow and his wife Alice, also a retired doctor. Just as we were leaving Dr Clow asked my wife and me to step into his study. There he pointed to a fine framed photogrsph of the Parthenon. 'That was given to me', he said, ' by Henry Beauchamp Walters, the Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.' 'Oh', I said, 'He once owned the house in Hampstead, where we now live.' 'Alice', he called,' Come and hear this!' It turned out that Walters was her uncle and that she had often stayed with him and his wife when she was a girl.