English Buildings

Looking more closely I like to think I’m good at taking in a building when I visit it, at getting straight not just the overall architectura...

  Friars and their successors Anyone alighting from the train at Beverley station should find it easy enough to locate the remains of the me...

Moved but not shaken The Resident Wise Woman and I had not been in Beverley long before we started spotting interesting details and evidence...

One for Cottonpolis Some of Manchester’s commercial buildings are so vast that they defeat the photographic efforts of a mere amateur with a...

  When size matters I have marked my recent visit to Manchester with a series of posts on three of the city’s small architectural gems – a c...

  Venice in the North Drawn along Manchester’s Kennedy Street by the sight of an interesting looking pub, I followed my nose and ended up in...

Steaks and ale How good to find, in central Manchester’s Cross Street, a building that looks small but punches above its weight. It’s Mr Tho...