English Buildings

Jones the entrance Threshold mosaics were common in shops in the early-20th century. These shops often had a doorway recessed in a small ...

Town texture: columns and tile-hanging Marlborough is one of the English towns (Blandford Forum and Warwick are others) whose history was...

Carter's cavalcade (4): Showpiece Here’s one last piece of outstanding tiling from my recent visit to Poole, and in many ways, it i...

Carter’s Cavalcade (3): Not just seed potatoes The third (and final, for now) highlight from my visit to Poole is this panel, one of a ...

Carter’s Cavalcade (2): Hunting the hart ‘Now we’re going to go into Halford’s,’ said Jo, leading our surprised group* into a building ...

Carter’s cavalcade (1): Very Art Nouveau I’m going to devote the next couple of posts to some of the things I saw on a visit to Poole the...

Flexible, portable, durable The Northamptonshire town of Brackley is somewhere I’ve visited often, but on my most recent visit I left ...