Goodbye Kirby Farm on Rooksnest Lane. You were never ours, we were just one of the (longest serving) tenants, but we were utterly yours, with all our shared quirks. Utterly exhausted, too many hats & trying to join a meeting a day early; but a new chapter begins, a mere 880yds over the fields.

‘The “Rooksnest mantelpiece”’ E.M. Forster wrote after moving back to King’s College Cambridge in 1947, ‘has followed us to Tonbridge, to Tunbridge Wells, has been stored, followed us to Weybridge and West Hackhurst, and now stands, more effective than ever, in its last home.’

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So pleased Forster's nameplate was returned safely. Here's my TLS piece about the Rooksnest mantelpiece he had installed in his college rooms.
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My error

Forster based his description of Howards End on a house in the hamlet of Rooks Nest in Hertfordshire, his childhood home from 1883 to 1893. The house, known in Forster's childhood as "Rooksnest" had, as in the novel, been owned by a family named Howard, and the house itself had been