English Buildings

Where was I? Year: 1968. Scene: A red Humber Sceptre driving along a lane in remote Somerset, my father at the wheel, me in the passenger se...

Markers of significance Oh I do like a good sign. Shop signs, inn signs, ghost signs, road signs. Signs that tell us to ‘Commit no nuisance’...

  Welcome intervention I’ve written before about the many positive contributions to British culture made over the centuries by those who arr...

  Grapes and glazing I read online that in Britain the rate of pub closures continues to be high: on average one pub is closing every day. A...

In continued admiration Up a street leading away from the town centre of Wooler I glimpsed the needle-like spire of a church. Intent on arch...

  In(n) admiration At first glance the main Wooler seemed, how shall I put it, a somewhat plain vanilla place, but refreshment drew us here ...

Makers and their marks As a pendant to my two recent posts about different kinds of fortified dwellings in Northumberland (the pele tower an...