This photo, writes my friend Gordon, who took it, is of Elses Farm on the outskirts of Sevenoaks Weald, Kent. Gordon says "it was restored about 7 years ago, until which time the floors were still of pounded earth." The poet Edward Thomas lived there with his wife Helen before being sent to France, where he was killed in action in 1917.

Here's a sample of Thomas's work.

                           In Memoriam

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who with their sweethearts should
Have gathered them and will do never again.