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Health resort To Malvern (again) for coffee, book browsing, exercise, and architectural appreciation. Malvern is one of my favourite nearby ...

  Top of the year It’s my habit at this time of year to look back through my posts of the last twelve months and see which have been popular...

An enduring tradition To Malvern, to browse in the secondhand bookshops, to look around, and to pay a visit to the Priory. It’s a terrific b...

Art and nature Malvern Link is an area to the north and east of Great Malvern, adjoining a swathe of land called Link Common. Development be...

What shall we do at quarter to two… Although I’ve passed it dozens of times, I’ve never photographed the front of the Post Office in Great M...

Mobile architecture (2): Ancient I'm stepping outside my comfort zone because I want to share the reconstruction of a medieval tent...

Mobile architecture (1): Modern Spotted in Malvern during the heritage festival this weekend was this memorable caravan, which I think ...

Postcards from England I’m fascinated by the way in which shop designers used tiles to make a colourful splash on street frontages, a t...

Pumpery By the side of a road a few miles outside elegant, hilly Malvern, in the flat country between the villages of Guarlford and Rhydd...

Quite a lot of Malvern is built in local reddish stone laid in a ‘rock-faced’ fashion. If this rather rustic finish seems a trifle wild and...

This surprise is in the Barnard’s Green area of Malvern, standing proudly at a road junction from where you take your choice of Malvern’s at...