English Buildings

Suit you, 1 My visit to Hull back in July turned out to be rather provisional. Faced with just a day in a very large city, I concentrated on...

In the sun As a sequel to my post in August about a splendid 19th-century shopfront on a Georgian building in Newport, Shropshire, here’s an...

  Sign of which times? It’s always worth looking out for old signs on shops – not just the sign bearing the shop name or owner’s name, but a...

Variety It has become almost second nature to me to seek out the atypical buildings in places that I visit – to look for Victorian architect...

  Now showing… Entranced on previous visits to Devizes by such buildings as the delightful stone-fronted Parnella House and the massive Vict...

Light the lights The facade of the Ritz cinema in Burnham-on-Sea looked somewhat the worse for wear when I passed it the other day – but, no...

Clothes from the Butcher This is a special sort of shop in Aldeburgh, a business that has been in the town since the 19th century with a fin...

Light exercise Sometimes I deliberately get off at the wrong tube station. But it’s not what you think. I’m neither covering up my geo...

Arriving in style In its dozen or so years of existence, this blog has rarely been quiet for more than a week at a stretch. It’s not u...

Elain Harwood, Art Deco Britain  Published by Batsford, in conjunction with the Twentieth Century Society Art Deco is fashionable now...

A different angle I’ve read two recently published books that mention the old Hoover factory in Perivale, West London. Both books were goo...

Scene with cranes Back in October 2008 I wrote a post about Battersea Power Station , then in sore need of care, which I spotted as I pa...

Celluladies It was back in 2014 when last I posted about a relief on the building that was once Cheltenham’s Odeon Cinema, and before t...

An exercise in style As a pendant to my previous post on a clock in Bridgwater , here’s another outstanding Art Deco clock. It’s in the c...

Still pressed for time… So how about a couple of posts about clocks on buildings? Like my previous couple of posts at this time of franti...

Georgian Art Deco Here is something I have little to say about – with the exception of single a observation. This Post Office in Taunto...

Fine detail It occurred to me after I did my previous post about the threshold mosaic in Hereford that I had a recent picture of anoth...

Carter’s Cavalcade (3): Not just seed potatoes The third (and final, for now) highlight from my visit to Poole is this panel, one of a ...

For sore eyes I’d always fancied visiting Swadlincote – just because of the name, I admit. And because of the bizarre entry on the pla...

R & R The Cross in Stroud is a road junction at the top end of the High Street that many people must miss. A paved area at the uppe...