Comments on: The Automobile Association and Follies https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20414 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:43:22 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20414 In reply to Colin Addy.

Hello Colin. I’m so pleased you now have a copy. I wish you much happy planning and many exciting journeys.

]]> By: Colin Addy https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20413 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:33:47 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20413 Hi
Thanks for drawing our attention to this wonderful book. I was reminded of how my father would use his batted copy of the AA Illustrated Road Book Of England & Wales to plan Sunday afternoon family drives out and about in Norfolk and Suffolk in the 1960’s; so much so that it prompted me to see if it was possible to get a copy! Which I now have! At about £15-£20 from any number of second-hand book traders it is an amazing buy. Packed with suggested routes for leisurely drives, notes about most places of interest en route and filled with wonderful b&w drawings illustrating follies and other points and places of interest. My copy is the 1961 (2nd Post-War edition) and I would highly recommend it. Who needs a Sat Nav and Google Maps when you can find your way with this book! And it makes Mr Portillo’s Bradshaw’s Guide look positively dull by comparison! Thanks and Here’s to Jolly Adventures!

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20362 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:58:07 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20362 In reply to TOM GARDNER.

Thanks Tom! Sadly I don’t have a Rolls Royce to get me from folly to folly.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20361 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:57:04 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20361 In reply to Iain KS Gray.

Hello Iain. Thanks for sharing this story about Hugh Casson. I have all of the volumes he edited for National Benzole on my shelves, but of course the one on follies is my favourite.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20360 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:55:55 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20360 In reply to John Preston.

Hello John. I am afraid to say I am baffled. I am not aware of any issues. I hope it resolves itself soon.

]]> By: Iain KS Gray https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20350 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:12:14 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20350 The mention of Hugh Casson, a former Patron of The Folly Fellowship, reminded me of a good story about Hugh when he was a young man walking along a street with a companion. Suddenly a short distance ahead a man collapsed on the pavement. Hugh’s friend ran to assist what had been an epileptic fit and called back to Hugh to ask if he had something hard to bite on, a pencil maybe. Hugh patted all his pockets, pulled out a pencil and said “Would an HB do?”.

]]> By: John Preston https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20342 Sat, 31 May 2025 18:27:57 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20342 I’ve been unable to get your photos to open for the last three weeks – this is on MS Edge and on Firefox – a real shame as your pictures and the archive ones are a real part of the posts.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20341 Sat, 31 May 2025 17:20:28 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20341 In reply to Simon Scott.

Hello Simon. Shell also produced some interesting guides for motorists – it’s a fascinating subject. Here’s the answer to your question about Hatt and Sharp https://thefollyflaneuse.com/follies-the-pleasures-of-the-journey/

]]> By: Simon Scott https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20340 Sat, 31 May 2025 17:14:40 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20340 In reply to Editor.

Reminds me of a fascinating volume I have on my shelves titled “British Castles Follies & Monuments” (no commas!) produced by National Benzole Books” who I think used to trade as Cleveland petrol stations. So another guide with motoring connections. Undated but I guess c1970. Edited by Sir Hugh Casson, writing by E M Hatt with research, design and illustration by Paul Sharp. And the illustrations are wonderful. Only shame is that the original binding was poor which means you cannot open the book fully! Always wondered who messrs Hatt and Sharp were…

]]> By: TOM GARDNER https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-automobile-association-and-follies/#comment-20339 Sat, 31 May 2025 16:49:21 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14917#comment-20339 TOM (NYC)
ALAS, I’M ALMOST ENVIOUS OF YOUR – ‘TREASURE HOUSE’ OF ‘MATERIAL’ -FROM WHICH YOU OFFER THESE … 10 ON 10 ARTICLES.
MY ONLY COUNTER BEING, MY … EAST COAST (USA) ‘SETTINGS’, WHEN I DROVE
A 1961, ROLLS ROYCE LIMO, FROM: FLORIDA (BOCA RATON), TO NYC. FOR A MOST WONDERFUL WOMAN. AS IT TURNED OUT, I HAD TO USE RT. 301 (THROUGH COUNTLESS SMALL TOWNS) AS OUR MAJOR … ‘I – 95’ HAD NOT BEEN COMPLETED.
IT WAS ON THAT TRIP (c. 1967), THAT, WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE … ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’ VISUALS, CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. SADLY, MOST WERE IN POOR CONDITION.
AS IT HAPPENS, POST OUR CIVIL WAR, OUR ‘LANDED GENTRY, NO LONGER BUILT SUCH STRUCTURES; WE HAD TO AWAIT THE ‘ASTOR’ 400 – TO START AGAIN.
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORTS.

TOM (THE ONCE UPON A TIME BUTLER)

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