List of Illustrations                              ix
Preface                                            xi
The Story So Far                                   xiv
  1 Uffington                                      1  (26)
  2 Film Critic                                    27 (33)
  3 The Diarist                                    60 (6)
  4 'That's Shell - That Was!'                     66 (14)
  5 'To Mr and Mrs John Betjeman, a Son'           80 (16)
  6 The Pipers                                     96 (13)
  7 Continual Dew and An Oxford University Chest   109(12)
  8 Decoration                                     121(19)
  9 Observer Corps                                 140(6)
10 Taking to the Air                               146(12)
11 'Minnie'                                        158(24)
12 Old Lights for New Chancels                     182(13)
13 Ireland                                         195(45)
14 Daily Herald                                    240(25)
15 Admiralty                                       265(19)
16 Farnborough                                     284(42)
17 New Bats in Old Belfries                        326(14)
18 British Council                                 340(19)
19 A Lincolnshire Tale                             359(9)
20 Oxford Preservation Trust                       368(15)
21 On the Air in the Forties                       383(9)
22 'The Betje-bus'                                 392(14)
23 A Preservationist in the Making                 406(17)
24 'Tame and Tade'                                 423(27)
25 Wantage                                         450(26)
26 First and Last Loves                            476(11)
27 A Few Late Chrysanthemums                       487(14)
28 Cloth Fair and Rotherhithe                      501(18)
29 On the Air in the Fifties                       519(10)
30 'City and Suburban'                             529(22)
31 Television Personality                          551(10)
32 Preservationist's Progress                      561(9)
33 Cincinnati                                      570(23)
34 In the late 1950's                              593(8)
35 'A Really Thrilling Moment of Triumph'          601(11)
Appendix: 'Uffington Downs'                        612(4)
Acknowledgements                                   616(4)
Notes                                              620(88)
Index                                              708