English Buildings

Suit you, 2 In the centre of Hull, strolling around on my visit back in the summer, I found Hepworth’s Arcade, a small shopping development ...

Suit you, 1 My visit to Hull back in July turned out to be rather provisional. Faced with just a day in a very large city, I concentrated on...

The ‘Theophrastus effect’ It happens every now and then: you’re walking round a town or district that’s unfamiliar to you, and you notice so...

Pebbles and nodules Regions said to be poor in building stone (or far enough away from good stone to make transport prohibitively expensive ...

  Local speciality Stoke pots, Nottingham lace, Luton hats. In years gone by, many English towns became specialist centres of manufacturing....

An enduring tradition To Malvern, to browse in the secondhand bookshops, to look around, and to pay a visit to the Priory. It’s a terrific b...

Forty years on Exactly forty years ago today, the Resident Wise Woman and I were married in St Mary's, Sudeley. I have written about my ...