Good evening: evocative corners of Benton End: warmest wishes.
Good morning: old family photo emerged in recent desk tidy - detail shows great grandfather, a famously laid back Shropshire farmer, in pale jacket - great-great-grandfather, a Lancashire doctor, seated with his wife; also standing my great-grandfath
Good morning: an amazingly serious face in the plasterwork of the banqueting house at Sheffield Manor Lodge seen recently: warmest wishes.
Good evening: hard at work this week on Benton End - good to get a chance to see the Garden Museum exhibition again: Cedric Morris’s still lives so evocative of place: warmest wishes.
Good evening: a detail from installation seen recently at Wentworth Woodhouse: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: decided to revisit none of my favourite Cambridgeshire houses, The Manor, Hemingford Grey: something about this places touches the soul: warmest wishes.
Morning Cambridge: warmest wishes.
Good morning: fine armorial glass New Hall, Warwickshire: warmest wishes.
Good morning: can’t resist sharing another detail from the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel Manchester, the former Refuge Assurance building by Alfred Waterhouse: warmest wishes.
Good morning: the personification of Industry from the Waterhouse designed former Refuge Assurance Building, Manchester: warmest wishes.
Good morning: more astonishing buildings in Manchester from its 1890s glory days - terracotta figure from the Tootall Building: warmest wishes.
Good morning: last night we strolled through the streets of central Manchester after supper out: a sense of great industrial and civic heritage: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: Renishaw Hall and the genius of Sir George Sitwell: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: a touching detail from the Belasyse monument in Coxwold church, showing the dignified grieving daughter of Sir William - d.c.1604 and Lady Bellasyse) carved by Yorkshire sculptor-mason Thomas Browne: warmest wishes
Good evening: a fine late seventeenth century doorcase in the hall of Nunnington Hall, Yorkshire: warmest wishes.
Good evening: what a feast of family monuments in the parish church at Coxwold to the Belasyse family (later Earls Fauconberg): warmest wishes.
Good evening: 1680s gateway - Nunnington Hall, Yorkshire: warmest wishes.
Good evening: the mellow gardens of Shandy Hall were on our tour today - former home of Laurence Sterne: here a border of sweet william: warmest wishes.
Good evening: among today’s visits was one to a twentieth-century masterpiece by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott - the Abbey Church at Ampleforth in Yorkshire a bit of a contrast to all those ruined abbey churches: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: cottage and Garden, Rievaulx - summer perfection: warmest wishes.