Statues and Monuments: Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Bristol

This statue stands outside Bristol Temple Meads Station as a memorial to his connection to Bristol. Brunel was born…

Eltham Palace: An art deco renaissance

In the early 1930’s, Stephen and Virginia Courtauld were looking for land on the edge of London to build a…

A recent trip to Cardiff and the West of England gave me the opportunity to spend my time revisiting some…

All that survived from the Medieval and Tudor palace at Eltham was the Great Hall and the foundations of other…

Dodging the rain showers and making the most of any sunshine seems to have become the thing this month. The…

We had the chance to look at the wonderful interiors of Eltham Palace

The medieval moated manor house with extensive parkland was acquired by King Edward II in 1305. In 1470 King Edward…

Last month I visited Keith and we walked around his home patch on the Isle of Grain, so this month…

Sue was in Brighton earlier this week and found these murals at MIddle Street Primary School.

It had been some weeks now since our first visit to Hutchinson’s bank. We had intended going in early June,…