English Buildings

Egyptians While still on Lincolnshire themes, it struck me that when in Louth I really should take a photograph of at least one of the ...

Homage Not far from the A16 in Lincolnshire is the small village of Haugham.* It’s a place that means something to me because, long ago, ...

Top-drawer I continue my group of posts looking back over buildings I visited earlier with a couple of Lincolnshire favourites. I’ve be...

Corn Exchange, book exchange This is one of those jaw-dropping buildings that constantly stop me in my tracks as I walk around English to...

Shop talk I regularly give a talk about the history of shops and shopfronts and I’ve taken to using this image to explain what late-Medi...

A sign of old times It is, as they used to say, February fill-dyke. Here in Gloucestershire dark days predominate, deadlines loom, and ...

A short afterword Yesterday I did a post about the tiled decoration by Eduardo Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road underground station in Lon...