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Eleanor, the Black Prince loom in vague majesty out of the past. Woodstock was notable before the Norman conquest. It was already a borough when the Domesday Book was being compiled. The park was walled to keep the foreign wild beasts of Henry I. Fair Rosamond���s Well still bubbles by the lake. From the gatehouse of the old manor the imprisoned Princess Elizabeth watched the years of Mary���s persecution. In the tumults of the Civil Wars Woodstock House was held for King Charles by an intrepid officer though a long and bitter siege and ravaged by the victorious Roundheads at its close. And beyond the most distant of these events, in the dim backward of time, the Roman generals administering the districts east and west of Akeman Street had built their winter villas in this pleasant, temperate retreat; so that Woodstock and its neighbourhood were venerable and famous long before John Churchill, in the early years of the eighteenth century, superimposed upon it the glory of his victories of the French. The annual Winston Churchill Memorial Concert at Blenheim Palace commemorates the great statesman���s birth there and his involvement with the house throughout his life. Photograph by Yousuf Karsh, 30 December 1941, of Winston Churchill made available by courtesy of Peter Fetterman Gallery (merideth@ peterfetterman.com) where it forms part of their collection available for sale. I met Karsh in the lobby of the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach Florida (USA), during one overcast wintry day. He gave me the impression that the resolve demonstrated in the picture was as much that of a tenacious war chief as it was of a sitter anxious to be done with the task. Christopher Hyland HYLAND