Drawing the Detail

Tag: conservation area

  • Beauty and Beyond: Stafford Street, Eccleshall

    Beauty and Beyond: Stafford Street, Eccleshall

    Bethan Ward at No. 10 Stafford Street is Eccleshall’s go-to destination for beauty and undies. I drew this street not long before we moved to Scotland and I’m finally updating this archive three years later. It’s a timely post as I gather from their Facebook page that Bethan Ward is shortly relocating to Fletcher’s Garden…

  • Broomgate, Lanark

    Broomgate, Lanark

    Broomgate (not to be confused with Bloomgate around the corner) is full of colourful traditional rendered buildings…

  • Market Place (52 to 36) Burslem

    I’d like to welcome new visitors to a small selection of buildings to the north of St John’s Square in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. It’s hard to picture how much these streets have changed over the last century but The Vanished Landscape by the historian Paul Johnson gives a great insight into life growing up in the…

  • St John’s Square (west side), Burslem

    Terry Hunt of Jollie’s Arts and Crafts shop in Newcastle-under-Lyme used to run the Duke  William. He told me that the inside bears little resemblance to the outside as it was built around the bones of an older building. There is a little about its history on the Duke William website. I’ve added a rogue…

  • St John’s Square, East, Burslem

    Good to be back drawing another street in the historic core of Burslem. Here are the latest sequence of buildings from the east side of St John’s Square.  There is plenty written on the historic fabric in the town centre conservation plan. I always welcome any historical insights into these buildings to include next to…

  • Audlem, Stafford Street, The Square and Shropshire Street

    The following drawings are all extracts from the one drawing of this beautiful village in Cheshire, close to the borders of Staffordshire and Shropshire. It is a place that our family have visited for almost twenty years by this summer and we are still regular visitors to the wonderful cafe and home of ‘the best…

  • Merrial Street

    Merrial Street corner with High street. Meet the local students on their way into town from Newcastle College. Hoods are for warmth here! Carlton House dates back to 1769 with a mid 19th century addition and is listed grade 2. Do you have any idea who ‘JS’ is? I would love to hear from you.…

  • Church Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

    This is the top of Church Street where it meets Newcastle High St at Red Lion Square. The ‘Art of Siam’ replaced a Tudor timber framed building once occupied by the ‘Three Tuns’ public house, Clement Wains original chemist (which moved over the road) and Moody’s Saddlery. The former two storey building with its four…

  • Ironmarket in Summer

    This is a selection of images from the drawing ‘Ironmarket in Summer’ which was awarded a prize by the Friends of the Borough Museum and Gallery, Autumn 2013. Box sets of 10 postcards of cropped images taken from this drawing are available to buy from Bellini’s Italian Cafe on Pepper St, Newcastle and in the…

  • Garden Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

    Garden Street sits at right angles to Well Street and is the older of these two terraces. There are 11 years between the two, Garden Street with a date stone of 1886and Well Street dated 1897 (year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee). Looking at the street more closely from left to right, the corner turns…