English Buildings

  Old, with later facilities Church Lane in Ledbury is one of those streets that features in books with titles like ‘Beautiful Britain’ or ‘...

The journey and the arrival I read somewhere that there’s a ruined church in a field somewhere near the village of Avenbury in Herefordshire...

  Across the fields This is one of those buildings I’d seen for years across the fields, but hadn’t got round to a proper visit until compar...

At the rock houses When I first went to school we were taught that the very first human homes were in caves and that these were clearly damp...

Letters from the turn of a century, 3 The third and last, for now, of my series on Art Nouveau lettering from Manchester. If you look up the...

Letters from the turn of a century, 2 Next in my series of three bits of Art Nouveau lettering is Albert House, a building in Manchester’s B...

Letters from the turn of a century, 1 From around 1890 and for the first ten or so years of the 20th century, a new decorative style, Art No...