English Buildings

Turn, turn, turn On the lumpy common above the village of Brill stands this windmill, apparently built towards the end of the 17th century a...

Perivalediction (3) As a final footnote to my Art Deco encounters on London’s Western Avenue, here’s a detail of the building just across...

Perivalediction (2) To the west of the main Hoover Factory in Perivale (see previous post ) is the canteen block, which was added in 1938. A...

Perivalediction (1) When I visit London my route in and out of the capital city takes me past the former Hoover Factory in Perivale, and see...

We want a rockery In the Abbey Gardens by the river in Shrewsbury is an interesting rockery, made up largely of tantalizing fragments of ...

One of the old school I’m not exactly snow-bound, but the weather and the need to catch up with work after New Year mean I’m not going far i...

In a comment on the previous post, a reader expressed appreciation for the way I describe things, saying that where she would have seen a st...