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Wellgate Lanark – Healing Hands to La Vigna
Wellgate, Lanark is one of the historic four gates or ports into the town. These are West Port, East Port, Wellgate and Castlegate. This drawing of Wellgate starts with no 60 and 58 and ends where it meets the High … Continue reading
Bloomgate to High Street, Lanark
Where Bloomgate meets Wide Close, the street narrows into a bottle neck where traffic slows to pass along this ancient route alongside St Nicholas Church. I have covered the rest of Bloomgate in earlier drawings and blog posts (here and … Continue reading
Bloomgate: St Nicholas to Greyfriars
We are in the week running up to Christmas 2019. It seems timely to begin this post with this drawing of St Nicholas’s Church Lanark. The links and legends associated with St Nicholas and Santa Claus are too many to … Continue reading
Mount Parade, York
If you are a fan of Georgian streets, then Mount Parade is a treasure waiting for you if you ever visit York. Continue reading
Drawing a Scottish Street: Bloomgate, Lanark
Scotland is an ongoing adventure but leaving Staffordshire was quite a tug. After living 24 years in the area you can imagine that the hardest part was saying goodbye to friends and all those people that make up the fabric … Continue reading
32-56 High Street Eccleshall
Here’s another section along the north side of Eccleshall High Street. I’ve added the descriptions for each of the many listed buildings along this part of the street and added the link to the relevant page of British Listed Buildings … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Eccleshall Conservation Area, pen and ink drawing, Streetscape art
Tagged architecture, Curious Wren, Earth Selection, Eccleshall Conservation area, Eccleshall drawings, Eccleshall heritage, Eccleshall illustrations, Eccleshall listed buildings, history, old post office eccleshall, pen and ink drawing
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49 Cardinal Cap Alley, 51 and 52 Bankside
Cardinal Cap Alley and Bankside are tucked between the Globe Theatre and the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank. I was intrigued to read the plaque on number 49 which looks fairly convincing but it turns out it isn’t … Continue reading
Leek: 54 to 76 St Edward Street
Driving into Leek along the A53 from Stoke, you catch sight of the striking black and white profile of the Victoria Buildings on the left hand side. Turn the corner from Broad St (A53) into St Edward Street and you … Continue reading
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Tagged Drawing, Leek, Leek Conservation Area, Leek listed buildings, Odeon Antiques, pen and ink drawing, Sherratt and Reece, Sleigh family Leek, Spout Street Leek, St Edward Street, Staffordshire, Staffordshire heritage, Staffordshire Moorlands
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Blossom Street, York
Time to update the archive! This is a short length of Blossom Street, right next to Micklegate Bar, the ancient and most significant south west gateway into the walled City of York. You can just see the stonework to the … Continue reading
