English Buildings

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...

Out of dust… Drifting around the area north of Old Street the other day I was impressed by how spruced up the area was: quite different f...

Big sheds In the early 1900s London’s transport was starting to turn to electricity for its power. The early underground trains had...

Bristol brickwork (1) Passing through Bristol last week, I thought I’d take a look at a favourite building I’d not seen for a while. Wh...

It would take a Piranesi to do justice to the shell of London’s Battersea Power Station , vast, roofless, and decaying by the side of Chels...