Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist, broadcaster, satirist and author, known for journalism, memoir and religious writing.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The Infernal Grove
Collins, 1973. Vol. 2 of his autobiography The Chronicles of Wasted Time.
Lived at Cambridge Gate in the early post-war years.
I remember particularly Regent's Park on a moonlit night, full of the fragrance of the rose gardens; the Nash terraces perfectly blacked-out, not a sign of light anywhere, white stately shapes waiting to be toppled over – as they duly were, crumbling into rubble like melted snow
The author is recalling his night-time walks during the Blitz of 1940-41. In the post-war years,
I used to walk around Regent's Park most afternoons with Tony Powell at the time he was writing the first volume of his Music Of Time, and we would discuss, as we went along, the forthcoming adventures of his characters
Like It Was - The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge
Collins, 1981.
March 9, 1948. Came back early and walked with Kitty in Regent's Park. Wonderful evening light, blossoms beginning, Spring coming
Various brief references. On 22nd January 1951, during an evening walk around the terraces, a scream attracts his attention to a drunken row between a man and a woman. This is his most detailed entry regarding the park; like his neighbour Anthony Powell he seems to have been impressed by the violence of the area.