The Face Of The Home Counties
: Portrayed in a series of eighteen week-end drives from London
Photographs by J. Dixon-Scott, Will. Taylor and the author
Harold Philip Clunn & James Dixon-Scott
Published by Simpkin Marshall: Lonson 1936 1st Edition
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The Face of the Home Counties offers an evocative portrait of the landscapes, villages, architecture, and byways surrounding London, presented through eighteen carefully planned weekend motoring routes. Harold Philip Clunn guides readers through the historic charm of Surrey, Kent, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and other neighbouring counties, blending topographical observation with concise historical commentary. Supported by the atmospheric photography of J. Dixon-Scott, Will Taylor, and Clunn himself, the book captures the rich textures of pre-war rural England at a moment when motoring was opening the countryside to a broader public.
Published in 1936, the work preserves a vision of the Home Counties just before the dramatic social and physical transformations brought by the Second World War. Its photographs, route descriptions, and reflections on local heritage form both a travel guide and a cultural time capsule, celebrating landscapes and towns that were already beginning to change. This volume will appeal to collectors of early motoring literature, admirers of English local history, and readers interested in photographic records of interwar Britain."
