English Buildings

Christmas books: 3 The next of my handful of Christmas books is the biography of a little known amateur architect who was responsible f...

Carpet people For around 200 years between the 1770s and the 1970s, carpet-weaving was a major industry in Kidderminster, a trade stimulated...

Top shop On either side of a traditional shop front are vertical features called pilasters. They frame the façade and may be topped with ...

Forgotten industries (1): Red brick, red tape This imposing red-brick mill was constructed in 1886 and is in many ways a typical 19th-centur...

I've added another page to this blog, accessed as before either from here or via the PAGES menu in the right-hand column. It covers the...

All eyes in Manchester’s Albert Square turn towards the stupendous Town Hall, designed by Alfred Waterhouse and one of the biggest and most...

As you walk up Brewery Lane in the North Oxfordshire village of Hook Norton, the road climbs slightly. Walking away from the centre of the v...

Bristol is rich in interesting buildings, in spite of the fact that swathes of the city were bombed during World War II. Some of the survi...

You’d have to go a long way to find anything like this, the Spa Buildings in the middle of the small Worcestershire town of Tenbury Wells, w...