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A Shaw Thing in Ayot St Lawrence

By on August 5, 2012 in Travel articles

The villagers of Ayot St Lawrence, a tiny hamlet hidden away in a maze of narrow country lanes near Welwyn, in Hertfordshire, were more than a little mystified when the famous author, playwright and philosopher, George Bernard Shaw, came to live in their midst in 1906. He was everything they mistrusted: a tall, bearded, Irish-born […]

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