English Buildings

Usually when I’m writing posts for this blog, I like to give you a bit of historical information – a date, an architect’s name, a few detail...

Wells Cathedral was begun towards the end of the 12th century and its builders, as was usual in the Middle Ages, began at the east end with...

The orthodox story goes something like this. Technologies such as the production of cheap steel and the first safety elevators (pioneered b...

THANK YOU (2) A recent post on I Like alerted me to the documentary film The London Nobody Knows, in which James Mason guides us through so...

Around 6,000 acres of shingle, drifts of gorse, sea kale, dock, and yellow horned poppy, scatterings of tin and wooden huts and dwellings (s...

Petworth is a fascinating West Sussex town, a tight knot of narrow streets and tile-hung buildings set around a market place, hard by the en...

This is a former Church Institute and Club just off Marylebone High Street. The inscription above the entrance is a bit ambiguous – did the ...