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The Civic Offices were opened circa 1963, to the designs of architects Bradshaw Gass & Hope. The buildings replaced earlier municipal buildings such as the Municipal Hall on the Ironmarket which was controversially demolished in 1967 and the Guildhall on the High Street which still stands. The Read more

It seems to have become somewhat of an annual tradition to mosey on down to Cardiff to see what Whitchurch is looking like. I've been there at least once each year (except 2020) since 2016 and it has been a really interesting thing to see how it has changed. It started off in incredibly fresh Read more

Another of Leek's reasonably good offering of mills. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find any information about this place. It crops up in the background of a few old aerial photographs that I've seen which mainly focus on the larger mill complexes that formerly neighboured the site. It is pretty Read more

Clearly this is nothing new, there are plenty of reports on this place, but this is my take on the place. I've wanted to get on the power station game for a looooong time, however as normal things have gotten in the way and despite a few brief pokes at Rugeley and Ironbridge I've never gotten Read more

One from a whistle-stop mooch about Birmingham last year, having seen Speed's report it seemed worthy of a visit. Old baths like these are becoming few and far between with many local authorities building new facilities often under increasingly weird names such as "lifestyle centres" and "wellness Read more

I'm not even going to pretend I really know anything about the history of the Bass Brewery, or about breweries in general. I have done some internet digging as usual but the history of the actual brewery complexes seems to be rather vague and it's difficult to track down much relating to this exact Read more

I'm sure that most will be familiar with Chatterley Whitfield and a lot will have given it a visit over the years. There have been numerous excellent reports over the years, not least AndyK's outstanding effort a couple of years back which practically covered every inch of the place. I've visited Read more

Another of Stoke-on-Trent's municipal buildings that has been left to rot for far too long. The building was in essence redundant from the day it was built. For those that don't know Stoke hasn't always been what it is today, it was originally six entirely separate towns that were in almost Read more