Keeping with the ‘regal connection’, I have just seen a house named “Leighton”; it was vacant. The only Leighton that I know, not personally of course is/was Frederic, Baron Leighton of Stretton (1830 – 1896), a painter and President of the Royal Academy, so I wondered if the house had been named after him, a bit like Windsor Terrace, (see above), but I can't think why! Anyway, this was the third house that I had seen for my Client, who through no fault of theirs, the last house had fallen through. The house was, in my opinion, a more attractive dwelling and as it was in good condition, needing only modest modernisation and improvement, I really hope that my Client can proceed. It was clean and innocuously painted, so the academicians can keep their day jobs, painting portraits, landscapes and whatever; they won’t be needed here for a while…   more »