The strangest country I ever visited was England…
Portsmouth, Hampshire
…but I visited it at a very early age…
Royal Pavillion, Brighton, Sussex
… and so became a little queer myself.
Colchester, Essex
England is extremely subtle; and about the best of it there is something almost secretive…
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Square, Walsall, Staffordshire, WS2
… it is an amateur even more than aristocratic in tradition…
Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate, York, Yorkshire, YO1
… it is never official.
Folkestone, Kent
From GK Chesterton’s Autobiography (1936)
