tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post8829307028150884542..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Stow-on-the-Wold, GloucestershirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-11724449190488893452018-03-24T22:41:26.095+00:002018-03-24T22:41:26.095+00:00According to a standard book on follies - I forget...According to a standard book on follies - I forget the title and author - a folly has to have no practical use. A tower built as a museum would therefore not be a folly! but most so-called follies seem to waver between the useless and the useful. I know that in an unseasonable snow fall when I visited the folly tower at Mow Cop some years ago, the walls provided a very useful practical purpose - in sheltering me! Did it for those ten minutes therefore cease to be a folly?? Perhaps the folly was in me going there in that weather - but it WAS the 2nd of June! Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com