English Buildings

  Now showing… Entranced on previous visits to Devizes by such buildings as the delightful stone-fronted Parnella House and the massive Vict...

Boot’s Corner One result of spending some time thinking and writing about the history of shops is that one becomes aware of the way differen...

The great indoors, 2 The other day I did a Google image search of ’Stourhead’ and eight of the first ten pictures it produced featured the P...

  The great indoors I’ve visited several gardens this summer. Lest anyone think this represents time off from historic architecture, my rece...

Fragile with care Back in 2008 I posted a picture of this ghost sign in Gloucester. I used the picture as a jumping-off point for a discuss...

Continuity and change If there’s one building in the Cotswold town of Tetbury that is impossible to miss, it’s the Market House, all seven b...

Self-help The Northamptonshire village of Long Buckby still bears evidence of its part in the Northamptonshire shoe-making trade (at least o...