A view looking out through a doorway towards the staircase landing of Rose Cottage in Aldworth, with a young Max Hastings peeping into the room from the top of the stairs

Date:
1950 - 1955
Location:
Rose Cottage, Aldworth, Parsonage Green, West Berkshire, RG8 9RL
Reference:
AA101569
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The property was owned by Anne Scott-James (1913- 2009), one of Britain's first career journalists. In April 1944 she married fellow journalist Macdonald Hastings (1909-1982), a noted war reporter and co-founder/editor of Country Fair Magazine. Their son, seen in this photograph, is the journalist, author and military historian Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (b. 1945).

Archival History

'Mc Hastings' has been written by John Gay on the original enclosure

Content

This is part of the Series: GAY01/09 Counties; within the Collection: GAY01 John Gay Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Gay, John

Keywords

Doorway, Georgian House