PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge The word hospital comes from the Latin for "stranger" and this gives a clue to the origins of the buildi...

click photo to enlarge We've visited Borough Market, Southwark, in London on many occasions over the years. In fact, in a recent discu...

click photo to enlarge George Gilbert Scott was one of the most prolific and able of Britain's Victorian architects. He came from ...

click photo to enlarge The church of St John the Divine at Southrey is unusual among Lincolnshire village churches in a number of interes...

click photo to enlarge The invention of the railways in the nineteenth necessitated the design of a new kind of building - the railway st...

click photo to enlarge Can there be any English building that has borrowed its style so readily and so widely as the pub (public house) o...

click photo to enlarge It's a testament to the engineering skills, vision and achievement of the Victorians that so much of the infras...

click photo to enlarge It's not unusual to find old shops that are retail premises no longer, perhaps having once been converted into...

click photo to enlarge The increase in Britain's population during the eighteenth century led to the graveyards around churches becom...

click photo to enlarge The nineteenth century English market hall is usually a combination of the decorative and the strictly functional....

click photo to enlarge Ever since I started to take an interest in architectural history, about forty years ago, I've compared build...

click photo to enlarge A nineteenth century building that can be found in many of England's towns and cities is the corn exchange....

click photo to enlarge The building in today's photograph, the former Christian Association & Literary Institute at Spalding, ...

click photo to enlarge As I've said elsewhere in this blog much of my photography is incidental. By that I mean the subjects that I ...

click photo to enlarge Today's photograph is posted in response to an email I have received from "down under", Australia t...

click photo to enlarge Oliver's Wharf is a warehouse on the River Thames in Wapping, London. It was built by F. & H. Francis in 1869...

click photo to enlarge My interest in church architecture leads me to read a lot about the architects of the Victorian period: the major nam...

click photos to enlarge In a recent post I suggested that the buildings that survive the bulldozer are those built in the right place to hig...

click photo to enlarge Today's photograph title isn't a tongue twister designed to catch anyone out, but is a factual description of...

click photo to enlarge As I passed this Victorian building on Church Street, at Deeping St James in Lincolnshire, two thoughts crossed my mi...