English Buildings

Testing, testing Not many people notice the Kirkaldy Testing Museum, a building on London’s Southwark Street not far from the back of Tat...

A breath of fresh air I was slightly baffled when I came across this building. Approaching from what turned out to be the back, I found a...

Back to the future Shops are amongst the most frequently updated of all our buildings. During the past few years it has seemed as if some...

The Shock of the Old Locks and lock-keepers’ cottages, warehouses, little storage buildings and sheds, and hump-backed bridges taking vehicl...

Village vision My foggy morning visit to Great Rollright (see previous post) was followed by a brief stop in Cornwell on the other side o...

All the king’s men Going over to Oxfordshire the other morning for lunch with some friends, I decided to make a short diversion and visit th...

Saxon Severnside This is the other Saxon church at Deerhurst, to which I referred in the previous post. It’s now the parish church of St Mar...