English Buildings

New lease of life Often in this blog I write about what many would call the incidentals of buildings – odd bits of ornament, signage, det...

  Thereby hang tales... Here, as hinted in the previous post , are a few examples of the decorative Doulton panels from the blocks of fl...

Season's Greetings Part of the Somers Town area to the north of St Pancras Station, the Sidney Street estate was built in the 1930s b...

A memory On December 4, 1976, as the nights drew in after that memorable summer, E, a much-loved mentor, came to visit me in the room I...

Turning again In 1853, when in France Baron Haussmann was becoming Prefect of the Seine and beginning to plan his transformation of Paris...

Round we go   Sometimes the way a building turns a corner can be the best thing about it. I remember in a past post describing a partic...

Stones of Smithfield After Smithfield Market was redeveloped in the Victorian period, Charterhouse Street, which runs to the north of t...