English Buildings

Colour again Wandering around Warwickshire today, I ended up in Alcester, admiring Church Street, and it occurred to me that the combinat...

Colour in buildings Working on the book of the series Turn Back Time: The High Street last year focused my mind all too clearly on the pligh...

Beguiling tiling I’ve posted before about the wonderful shop fronts built by the W H Smith chain in the 1920s and 1930s, most of which have...

The joy of blogging is its randomness and variety, and I hope that this blog is no exception. But since the number of posts I’ve done is now...

Traditional decoration The shop front of the former premises of Frederick E. Gillett in Vauxhall Bridge Road is clad in deep green tiles and...

A little roguery Having admired the façade of St John’s Smith Square the other day, I glanced away from Smith Square towards the river and t...

Architecturally incorrect It’s a happy coincidence that I visited Sunningwell, in the previous post , within a few days of going to Chipping...