English Buildings

Energy and eclecticism I’ve just finished teaching a course on Victorian architecture, so thought I’d share a Victorian building or two ...

Headgear As in so many streets in small Cotswold towns like Lechlade – at Thames-side town in fact on the edge of the Cotswolds not far f...

Primal light: Illustration of the month My illustration this month comes from a book published in 1921, Highways and Byways in Sussex ,...

The early post This 1863 Liverpool Special pillar box* at Liverpool's Albert Dock is the survivor of seven that were originally mad...

News from everywhere July. The English summer in full if intermittent swing. England winning a Test Match against Australia. Strawberri...

A short break Heading out of Framlingham the other evening, it occurred to me that I'd left the café too soon after my coffee and lon...

Unity in diversity There’s a long tradition in the east of England of colour-washing houses in pastel shades. I admire this approach (a...