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Meetings with remarkable buildings

Showing posts with label milestone. Show all posts
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Monday, August 4, 2025

Vindolanda, Northumberland

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Markers of significance Oh I do like a good sign. Shop signs, inn signs, ghost signs, road signs. Signs that tell us to ‘Commit no nuisance’...
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Monday, August 15, 2022

Beckford, Worcestershire

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  Marking time, marking distance For those who thought that the cast-iron milestone in one of my recent posts was not quite architectural e...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Leigh Brockamin, Worcestershire

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  Marking the way Milestones go back as far as the Romans. The invaders who did so much for us erected a marker stone every 1000 double pace...
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Philip Wilkinson
I'm the author of The English Buildings Book, Phantom Architecture, Restoration, the book of Adam Hart-Davis's series What the Romans Did For Us, other books about architecture and buildings, and various books on other subjects, including Dorling Kindersley's handbooks on Mythology (written with Neil Philip) and Religions. IN THIS BLOG I share my encounters with some of my favourite English buildings, including many that are little known and that get short shrift in the architectural history books. Look here for accounts of breweries, prefabs, power stations, corrugated-iron barns and the occasional parish church as I share my meetings with England's remarkable buildings. IN THIS COLUMN, JUST BELOW HERE, are some links to a series of short articles that make up a very brief history of English architecture.
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