English Buildings

Streaky bacon Looking at Google Earth on a relative’s mobile the other day and marvelling at how much of London we could see, we chance...

Old building, new use I sometimes say in my posts that such and such a building ‘caught my eye’. There can be few more eye-catching build...

On the tracks of old railways (2): Mosaic The London underground network developed and grew long before Leslie Green designed his disti...

On the tracks of old railways (1): Identity Go on. You know what this is, or what it was, don’t you? If you’ve lived in London, or been...

Day in the life Passing through Cirencester, we spot a large temporary yellow sign telling us that there’s an exhibition of Lucienne Da...

Small differences Growing up in Cheltenham, I got used to Georgian and Regency architecture very early on. Many of the town’s streets we...

Six of the best: Old iron Since my last two posts – one on a house clad in corrugated iron in Mordiford, Herefordshire, one featuring ...