English Buildings

Underneath the arches I break off my succession of posts about buildings in London and Liverpool to report that I found myself in Amersham t...

The signs of yesteryear In the words of Chard Whitlow , Henry Reed’s amusing parody of T. S. Eliot, ‘As we get older we do not get any ...

The art of seeing My recent post about the wonderful mosaic floors in the National Gallery prompted a couple of people to say to me th...

ARCHITEXTS: THINGS WRITTEN ON BUILDINGS (4) Commit no nuisance I first came across a sign bearing the words ‘Commit no nuisance’ on a wall i...