English Buildings

Letters from the turn of a century, 2 Next in my series of three bits of Art Nouveau lettering is Albert House, a building in Manchester’s B...

Letters from the turn of a century, 1 From around 1890 and for the first ten or so years of the 20th century, a new decorative style, Art No...

Geological pudding Enjoying coffee one morning at the Cock and Rabbit, by the village green at The Lee, my eye caught what looked like some ...

  Distinctiveness at the fingerpost In 1964, the Warboys Committee, led by Sir Walter Warboys, reported on traffic signs on the roads of Bri...

Well built York’s New Walk is a tree-lined path running south along the bank of the River Ouse that was new in the 1730s. It was laid out as...

  Scene with cranes As regular readers of this blog will have noticed, I’m rather fond of pubs decorated with tiles. There was a great fashi...

Iron on display Look up in central York and, above the shopfronts, you’ll see all kinds of evidence of the city’s architectural and social h...