Jun 1, 2022 | Architectural Drawing, Building conservation, Listed buildings, Newcastle-under-Lyme History
Waiting for the X164 bus from Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre back to Whitmore was a sketch moment. My car must have been getting fixed at Ryan’s garage – sketched here the year before. I keep places/buildings that I find interesting in mind to draw later...
Dec 8, 2021 | Listed buildings
There’s always been a warm glow from this much loved shop on Shropshire Street in Audlem, a village which can trace its ancestry back to the Domesday book when it was known as Aldelime. It’s located next to the Shropshire Union Canal where you can find a...
Jan 19, 2021 | Burslem Heritage, Listed buildings, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent Conservation area, Uncategorized
Aquarius of Burslem can be found high up on the Wedgwood Institute on Queen Street, Burslem in the first alcove dedicated to the month of January. This is the month that shows a woman holding her infant – the symbolic infant new year with hand held high, gazing...
Sep 29, 2020 | Architecture, Burslem conservation, Burslem Heritage, Listed buildings, Wedgwood Institute
Looking up at the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem Have you ever looked up at a building and marvelled at the creativity that has gone into it? Have you thought about the artists and makers and the hours of planning and co-ordination spent to pull something like the...
Nov 8, 2015 | Architectural Drawing, Eccleshall Architecture, Gallery at 12, Listed buildings
A few months ago, I met up with a couple enjoying a quiet drink outside Merckx Bar on the High Street in Eccleshall. I had just dropped off some prints of Eccleshall High Street into Gallery at 12 and was taking a few photos for the second drawing of the High Street,...
Apr 22, 2015 | Architectural drawings, Listed buildings, York
I have been drawn back to the Great North Road, this time up in York. The Roman road from London can be traced closely beneath the present day A64, entering York just a little north of Blossom Street and Micklegate and neatly illustrated on the British History Online...
