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Inside the Autumn 2009 magazine
Editor, Sue Herdman, introduces the current edition:
© Andrew Montgomery / National Trust
I’ll bet you can remember your first camera. Mine was a Bakelite Brownie 127, spied and acquired with that week’s pocket money at a Saturday jumble. I still have the first wonky images: my father standing at the garden gate, minus the top of his head.
I’d like to say I’ve progressed, but judging by the standard of images regularly sent in to us by you, our readers, it’s clear I’ve got a way to go. That’s why I’ll be keen to see the entries to our National Trust and Sunday Times photographic competition. Turn to page 28 to discover how to enter.
  
© John Millar / William Shaw / Layton Thompson
Great pictures are a feature in every edition of this magazine, not least because the National Trust is just one big picture opportunity. But perhaps the most haunting in this issue is of a place not in our care: Captain Scott’s base hut in Antarctica.
Chris Calnan, from the Trust’s conservation team, spent several icy months close by, seconded to the Antarctica Heritage Trust, working on the conservation of the contents of the hut of Scott’s fellow explorer Ernest Shackleton. Read his fascinating tale from page 20.
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Smallhythe Place in Kent, photographed especially for us by Layton Thompson, couldn’t be more of a contrast to Shackleton’s outpost. Ancient, intimate and warmly feminine, it was the home and haven of Victorian actress Ellen Terry. Her biographer, Sir Michael Holroyd, dips into her days at Smallhythe from page 34.
Elsewhere, Oz Clarke enjoys the mellow colours and flavours of Ickworth wines – the product of the Trust’s only commercial vineyard; Debbie Schrieber goes stargazing to mark International Year of Astronomy and globally acclaimed sculptor Anish Kapoor challenges us to be more culturally confident.
As ever, we hope you enjoy. By the time this reaches you, we’ll be hard at work on the next issue, due to appear in January with something of a new look… and yet more fabulous photography.
Sue Herdman, Editor
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