English Buildings

Mr White’s shop Taking a step back to photograph the lovely Market House in Castle Cary, I bumped up against this delightful shopfront, w...

  North London Nordic  There are buildings that I file mentally away in a category labelled ‘Must find out more about that’. One such wa...

‘I try the door of where I used to live’ For me, that’s one of the most haunting lines in ‘Dockery and Son’, a poem by Philip Larkin, in ...

Then and now I have been known to complain that buying books online is never quite the same as visiting a traditional, bricks and morta...

Still hanging on My recent visit to Banbury threw up one further highlight in the brief interval between rain and more rain. A short-liv...

The same, but different Striding through Banbury in the rain after my visit to Hanwell, I made a mental notes of the buildings I’d look a...

Over the churchyard wall Anybody who reads this blog regularly, or who has looked through some of the posts in the archive, will know t...