Bridges and River Crossings

There are quite a few cheap construction bridges over river corssings in my neck of the wood, East Hertfordshire. They were fords, and in effect still are, but recent pedistrian footbridges have been put in place. These are generally concrete and metail, with not much thought to the design. A very utlitarian, agri-industry style. The […]

St Helen’s Bishopsgate Church

St Helen’s Bishopsgate is in the City of London, right by the insurance district where you will find the Gherkin, Lloyd’s of London and the other new high rises. It was a dull day and the camera found it difficult to balance the grey light and grey stone. Robert Hooke was first laid to rest […]

Venetian Walls

Venice is infamous for romance, whatever the time of year. The buildings, the shapes and forms, the services on the outside of the buildings; it all has an equal balance of beauty and decay. I find the walls are just that. Where ever you go, a canal, campo or calle, there are the plastered areas […]

Poperinge

In a Brewery yard inPoperinge, in Belgium, I was stopped in my tracks by a plain, but wonderful wall on the side of a building. More details on the Brewery Museum: https://www.toerismepoperinge.be/hopmuseum

Wareham Walls

This wall in Wareham (Dorset), stretches around a corner of St John’s Street and is full of infill, brick, limestone and architectural features. It pleasingly curves around the road, marking out a boundary of what is now Sainsbury’s. Boundaries don’t change and many cenutries ago it may have marked the boundary of the Manor House. […]

Titchfield Abbey

Titchfield Abbey is a place I grew up with. I remember going there well before starting school picking apples and having fun. Nowadays I go there at least three or four times a year. The place is a shell of a former Tudor house built by Thomas Wriothsley, First Earl of Southampton. Everything is stripped […]

Military Walls

There are a string of Second World War pillboxes strategically placed on the North Downs. They all face south on the side of the hills, and were intended to slow down the advance of the German invasion. Filled with macine guns and made of brick, they were never intended to halt the advance but simply […]

Moorgate

Moorgate railway station was having a make over, replacing the old wall tiles. The over-night works revealed the walls beneath the tiles. Then, the new walls.

Standon Walls

A wall has been restored, repointed and the diaper pattern bricks been “re-burnished”.

Roman Walls

This forms part of the north wall that extended around the north, east and west boundary of Londinium. Today it is found underground in a car park on London Wall.