English Buildings

Alternative settlements (3) ‘Funny lot up at Whiteway. Sandal-wearing. Nude sunbathing. Vegetarianism. Beans.’ That’s how the buttoned-up in...

Alternative settlements (2 ) I have blogged before about Chartism, the working-class movement of the 1830s and 1840s that campaigned for...

Alternative settlements (1) From Turkey to Colombia, from Italy to Wales, there is a tradition that if you can build a house in a single ...

A costly piece of work Many English market towns have a cross to act as a marker of the market place, and sometimes this cross is an elab...

What's that château for? Castles. Bastions in the defence of the realm, of course. Homes of grand feudal lords, to be sure. But also sta...

At your service I mentioned in my previous post the many attractions of the town of Frome, where there is plenty to see at eye level and ...

Blue boys and asylum maids This striking structure is in the charming Somerset town of Frome, a place where the gaze is often diverted f...