English Buildings

Local hero Regular readers will known that I sometimes amuse friends and acquaintances by announcing that I have visited, for pleasure, p...

Slow fade Several times I’ve visited the small church of Stoke Orchard, not far from Cheltenham. The main reason that Stoke Orchard is fa...

  The English pig again I’ve noticed recently the creative use of decorative tiles in shops and on shopfronts in the Victorian and E...

  Slightly foxed At the weekend I was teaching a course about architectural ornament and the participants were amused and, I think, charm...

On reflection Among the rampant office blocks and stores of Victoria Street stands the Albert, a pub of 1862 built in solid yellow bric...

Great minds… The other night I was giving a talk about the history of the high street in Britain, illustrated with pictures of shops an...

The English pig Going back a few years from my previous post and we reach around 1910 and the golden age for English tiled shopfronts, w...