English Buildings

  Crafty Straight away, it was familiar, this utilitarian building tucked away in the centre of the Gloucestershire town of Newent, where I ...

  Shelved About 13 years ago I did a post on this blog about some tombs in the churchyard at Swinbrook. a delightful village on the edge of ...

  Light-bulb moment ’This is Forge Lane,’ says the Resident Wise Woman, doing some navigation with her phone. ‘Maybe that’s the forge.’ We h...

  Occasional haunts… …that just keep on giving: there are certain small towns, mostly in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, that I visit quite...

Looking more closely I like to think I’m good at taking in a building when I visit it, at getting straight not just the overall architectura...

  Friars and their successors Anyone alighting from the train at Beverley station should find it easy enough to locate the remains of the me...

Moved but not shaken The Resident Wise Woman and I had not been in Beverley long before we started spotting interesting details and evidence...