Drawing the Detail

Tag: pen and ink drawing

  • 33-67 Front Street, Acomb, York

    33-67 Front Street, Acomb, York

    Here’s the second drawing of Front Street, Acomb, cropped into smaller sections so as to get a good look at each building in turn. It’s a colourful glance over a street in the place where I grew up. It’s also a moment to say thank you for following and reading over the years.

  • 19-27 Front Street, Acomb, York

    19-27 Front Street, Acomb, York

    Acomb lies a couple of miles west of York and it’s the place where I grew up. It is a Domesday village with its own conservation area but being so close to the City of York it tends to be overlooked but not by everyone. This is my contribution to recording some of the architectural…

  • 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…

  • 2-22 Stafford Street, Eccleshall

    2-22 Stafford Street, Eccleshall

    Summer is in full swing and it has brought to mind those warm red-brick Staffordshire evenings before we moved up to Scotland. I have been meaning to update my street archive for a while so let’s resume where I last left off in Eccleshall with this side of Stafford Street at the southern end nearest…

  • Flowers by Lesley to Flowers of Scotland

    Flowers by Lesley to Flowers of Scotland

    There’s something uplifting to see flowers out on the high street, especially at this time of year. To continue where I left off on the last blog post, this is Flowers by Lesley Strachan,  on Lanark High Street, always a welcome blaze of colour whatever the season. Established in 1853 Brooks is one of Scotland’s…

  • Bloomgate to High Street, Lanark

    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 here).  The last few buildings on Bloomgate are home to Kass Hair & Beauty and…

  • 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 online. It would be interesting to learn a little more about who lived in these…

  • 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 will find the home of Odeon Antiques on the ground floor and Sherratt and Reece, …

  • Fenton: Hitchman Street and Victoria Road

    Hitchman Street is located in Fenton, one of the six towns of Stoke-on-Trent. Hitchman Street Conservation Area consists of thirteen red brick terraced dwellings and a shop which hinges around the corner from Victoria Road. The buildings date from 1889 and there is a date stone of 1890 to mark their completion. Another terracotta stone…

  • 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 right of this sketch which leads up to the pale limestone city walls, some parts…