English Buildings

  Magic flutes A few weeks ago I found myself talking to another author about the demise of second hand bookshops (victims of internet sales...

In plain sight Back in 2015 I read Matthew Champion’s fascinating book Medieval Graffiti and was alerted to the interesting array of ‘unoff...

Still going on Writing about Hadleigh’s Coffee Tavern in my previous post brought to mind the host of buildings that owe their existence to ...

  Anyone for coffee? One last post from the fascinating Suffolk town of Hadleigh, before I move on… Having enjoyed seeing Hadleigh’s church,...

Clinging on I do like an old wall. Walls around the gardens of town houses, kitchen garden walls, churchyard walls, crinkle-crankle walls i...

Showpiece This spectacular building of 1495 overlooks the churchyard at Hadleigh, no distance at all from the Guildhall-Town Hall complex in...

Local colour How could it be? I’d been to Suffolk several times and looked around so many of its towns – Aldeburgh, Southwold, Lavenham, Sud...