English Buildings

The lookers and their huts The flat landscape of Romney Marsh is dotted with a number of small buildings that most of us would hardly give a...

Survivors When it comes to parish churches, small is often both beautiful and interesting. Small churches in isolated locations sometimes su...

Cream of Bloomsbury This building at the corner of Coptic Street and Little Russell Street in Bloomsbury is well known as the second restaur...

Uncommon markets (3) In contrast to the grand town hall of the previous post, here is a market hall, plain and simple, in the middle of the ...

Uncommon markets (2) Of all the town halls that take the traditional form, with arches for a market on the ground floor, Abingdon’s is proba...

Uncommon markets (1) I’ve posted at least once before about my liking for traditional English town halls – the kind that form a central land...

More layers I recently did a couple of posts called ‘Layers of history’ about places constructed on prehistoric sites. As more than one...