The inn has also However, today, Chesterton's "quiet cross-roads" is the busy junction where Park lane meets the London Road. It stands in the centre of Beaconsfield and the photograph shows it as Chesterton would have known it. Dating back to 1570, the White Hart is a traditional English market town inn.
Trying to escape tedious situations in his A Ballade of An Anti- puritan he ends every verse with the plea "Will someone take me to a pub?" Naturally he was by no means slow in establishing his own niche in the White Hart and a bust of him stood for many years in his favourite bar. His poems tend to celebrate the Englishness of England, the nation of beef and beer. In addition to his prolific journalism, Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. They had bed and breakfast "at an inn called The White Hart", learned that a local pronunciation of the place-name was Beconsfield, and then and there decided it was where "someday we will make our home" Seven years later they bought a house called Overroads between the old and new towns and this is where he wrote the Father Brown detective stories. In his Autobiography he tells how they passed through a large and quiet cross-roads of a sort of village called Beaconsfield..
With no definite goal in mind but in a spirit of mild adventuring they took a bus and then a train and ended up wandering through the Buckinghamshire countryside. Chesterton and his wife Frances set out from Kensington on what he called "a sort of second honeymoon". K. One day, during their early married life, G.
Trying to escape tedious situations in his A Ballade of An Anti- puritan he ends every verse with the plea "Will someone take me to a pub?" Naturally he was by no means slow in establishing his own niche in the White Hart and a bust of him stood for many years in his favourite bar. His poems tend to celebrate the Englishness of England, the nation of beef and beer. In addition to his prolific journalism, Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. They had bed and breakfast "at an inn called The White Hart", learned that a local pronunciation of the place-name was Beconsfield, and then and there decided it was where "someday we will make our home" Seven years later they bought a house called Overroads between the old and new towns and this is where he wrote the Father Brown detective stories. In his Autobiography he tells how they passed through a large and quiet cross-roads of a sort of village called Beaconsfield..
With no definite goal in mind but in a spirit of mild adventuring they took a bus and then a train and ended up wandering through the Buckinghamshire countryside. Chesterton and his wife Frances set out from Kensington on what he called "a sort of second honeymoon". K. One day, during their early married life, G.