Ringing the Changes

As I alluded to last week, the afternoon we were in Carlisle happened to be one of the afternoons the … More

Carlisle cathedral

One of the sights of Carlisle I didn’t talk about in last week’s post was its cathedral. I felt it … More

On reaching the end of the Settle – Carlisle railway line at Carlisle, the sun came out providing lovely views … More

Ribbelhead is the quintessential example of how the Settle – Carlisle Railway was built. Its station is nowhere near a … More

One of the reasons the Settle – Carlisle Railway is now well used is that it makes the most of … More

The Settle to Carlisle train actually starts in Leeds and ought to be called the Leeds to Carlisle train. However, … More

I had not visited Belgium before. Not properly. I had passed through it many times while driving from Germany to … More

While on the topic of extraordinary buildings of the 1950s, I finally visited the Atomium earlier this year. I remember … More

Why the authors of the article in “Die Denkmalpflege” magazine of 2016 chose the first part of this title is … More

Yes, not a vote to change the country, but to join a country. That’s what happened in 1955 in the … More