English Buildings

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...

Everywhere in chains Where William Henry Smith (stationer) and Jesse Boot (chemist) began, the other chain retailers followed. In the late-1...

Boot’s Corner One result of spending some time thinking and writing about the history of shops is that one becomes aware of the way differen...

Corner shop I didn’t know what to expect in Yoxford, apart from a picturesque thatched shelter on the main road (the A12), the sight of whic...