English Buildings

Where is it? It’s odd, said a Czech friend, how many English houses have their chimneys at the end. We were having this conversation in s...

Illustrations of the month: Servants’ Hall A good browse in a favourite secondhand bookshop the other day threw up a small surprise. I wa...

The colours of memory I’ve gone on before about the stick-on advertising signs that shopkeepers sometimes put on their windows, and how...

The colours of London Walking around Balham with a friend and local resident the other week I was struck by the number of Victorian and E...

The street where you lived There are still a few weeks for anyone within striking distance of London to see the current exhibition at t...

Conversion I don’t recall coming across a Methodist chapel so ornately Classical as the one in Burford. The entrance front is in a loca...

The privy corner of the garden It’s not long since we had a lavatory on the blog, but these matters have been in the news recently. Engl...