English Buildings

Time machine Why can you never find a policeman when you want one? It was in part to provide a solution to this old question that London’s M...

Independent When my mother was a young girl, she thought all telephone boxes were cream in colour. This is because she spent her first years...

House move As I approached Needham Market on my Suffolk trip late last year, this house caught my eye and once I’d got my bearings I went ba...

  Beauty of holiness My interest provoked by hints in Pevsner that the church at Wilmcote might be eccentric or beautiful or possibly both, ...

  Whose farm is it anyway? Many decades ago, when I was in my early teens and starting to study Shakespeare seriously, my father took me on ...

Health resort To Malvern (again) for coffee, book browsing, exercise, and architectural appreciation. Malvern is one of my favourite nearby ...

  Woodworkers If you read one of those books about traditional English crafts by authors such as Dorothy Hartley or James Fox, you’ll probab...