English Buildings

A port with no sea…but lots of wood Sharpness is on the River Severn and in the early-19th century was the starting point of a canal that to...

  Marking the way Milestones go back as far as the Romans. The invaders who did so much for us erected a marker stone every 1000 double pace...

I still seem to be recovering from covid, which has left me easily exhausted and the victim from time to time of something I can only call b...

I am under the weather at the moment, because the 21st-century plague has struck me at last. So here is a reprise of a post from some years ...

Caught on the hop Seeing this building first from a distance, I thought it must be an old bottle kiln – after all, there were potteries ever...

End-on I’ve mentioned before on this blog that I have long been a fan of the work of the great English photographer Edwin Smith. Among the ...

Any excuse… …for a bit of corrugated iron and an old advertising sign. Yes, they’re things I am particularly drawn to. I like corrugated iro...