A Brief History Of The Home: Victorian and Edwardian (1837 -1918)

This period encompasses several iconic styles and architectural movements. While it is in the great state and municipal buildings that these shifts in design, taste and approach can be most immediately discerned, they are also clearly evident in domestic architecture…

I was there…Wembley Stadium

Professionally, there is nothing sadder than seeing a building disappear on which you’ve previously worked. And for me that means the loss of Wembley’s two famous Twin Towers that were demolished in 2003 to make way for the new stadium…

I was there… Battersea Power Station

Back in the late sixties when I was only just in long trousers, we lived opposite a rather fierce single lady who taught at my school. She had a son who was a good friend, an Old English sheepdog whose breath suggested it was keeping something dead in its mouth and a gentleman caller (I think that’s what my parents … Read More