English Buildings

From majestic cooling towers to backstreet substations, England’s electricity industry has produced many different kinds of buildings, most...

There are rumblings in the Church of England. Up and down the country, pews are being removed from parish churches and not everyone likes it...

Over at the excellent Unmitigated England a recent post lamented the fashion for putting up ugly signs in the countryside, thereby messing ...

There’s a whole world on the rooftops of London – roof gardens, modernist balconies with ship-like rails, groves of trees launching attacks...

MANCHESTER VIGNETTE (3) Before I move on to something completely different, here's the third of my trio of Manchester vignettes. It'...

MANCHESTER VIGNETTE (2) This depiction of a building on a building is a far cry from my previous Manchester vignette. We’re now well and t...

MANCHESTER VIGNETTE (1) There’s so much for the buildings buff to enjoy in Manchester – the city's industrial and commercial history can...