English Buildings

  Glowing in the sun For a small island, Britain has a large number of local building styles, in large part as a result of the bewilderingly...

Another way I’d seen and admired and scratched my head at Chichester’s Council House on several occasions before my recent visit the other w...

Local heroes I have strolled around Hastings on numerous occasions, on my own and with local friends, but in a town of any size there are al...

Public utility My last post about Kidderminster for now shows a Victorian drinking fountain against the background of one of the town’s carp...

  Ghosts’ stories I have spent my working life writing and editing illustrated books. Doing this meant paying attention not only to the form...

A small glory Yesterday some inner imp in me made me decide to visit Kidderminster. It’s a sad place, hardly designed to improve one’s mood,...

Hot hut Here is another look back at a building I saw at the ChiItern Open Air Museum back in last summer. It is, as many of my readers will...