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New blog post! More of the rich glut of colourful and entertaining Victoriana in the lovely Welsh town of Llanidloes. This time, a cavalcade of delightful shopfronts and commercial buildings. #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/11/09/a-c…

As Loyd Grossman almost put it, 'I got lost in the back lanes of southwest Wales, so you don't have to'. Do go and see these wonderful churches, but until the lockdown is lifted and the weather improves, there's my latest blog post. #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/11/15/min…

New blog post! Almost certainly you won't know this building - not even most professional architectural historians do. But it's time you did. #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/11/22/mul…

My latest and, I think, thus far longest blog post – a tale from central Wales of steam trains, sheep-farming and buildings with stripy arches and pointy bits. #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/11/29/bri…

Researching my most recent blog post led to my making some unexpected connections and took me to some surprising places. Take a look and go there too. #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/12/06/fre…

Not usually one to blow my own trumpet, but... #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/12/07/an-…

A major new discovery in the world of Victorian architecture? I just had to see it for myself. Read all about it in my latest blog post! #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/12/14/a-h… via WordPress.com

New blog post alert! This one gets to grips with a question that might sound flippant, but in fact is very pertinent: is Victorian architecture meant to be scary or does it just look that way? #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/12/20/the… via WordPress.com

A thumping good read with plenty of eye candy for the long, dark, Tier 4 evenings about a hugely talented, prolific architect, who, though on close terms with household names, never quite became one himself. #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2020/12/27/j-p… via WordPress.com

The New Year is 2021 and, by happy coincidence, the newest blog post is also the 21st! Here are colour, pattern, richness, flamboyance and visual delight to banish winter drabness and lockdown blues. #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/01/03/arc… via WordPress.com

My latest blog post is a chronicle of a research project that started out as a slightly tedious assignment for work, but turned into a voyage of discovery. I hope it will be for you, too. #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/01/17/jos… via WordPress.com

Who was Charles Henry Driver, and how did the architect of two ‘Cathedrals of Sewage’ also come to design fun palaces, Britain’s first sea life centre and railway stations? #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/02/03/int… via WordPress.com

Robert Lewis Roumieu was architect of two of the most notorious works of Victorian architecture in London. But who was he, why did he design like that, and how did vinegar and pickles shape his career? #LessEminentVictorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/02/15/rob… via WordPress.com

‘Are you going to turn it into a book?’ several people have asked about this blog. Thanks to a good piece of recent news, that is now going to happen - sort of. #LessEminentVictorians Joseph Peacock - Rogue to the family business lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/02/21/jos… via WordPress.com

My latest post is about the architects who were into Victoriana before it was cool. #LessEminentVictorians H.S. Goodhart-Rendel and the 20th century Victorians lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/03/01/h-s… via WordPress.com

An architect whose works you'll almost certainly have seen and whose name you won't have registered. Why not? Read on! From the picturesque to the sublime: Henry Darbishire and the architecture of philanthropy lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/04/26/fro… via WordPress.com

Faversham Almshouses turned my head the first time I drove past them. Three and a half years later, here is a full account of the building and its architects. ttps://lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/05/23/high-victorianism-for-the-kent-coast-the-architecture-of-wheeler-and-hooker/

New blog post! Amateur architecture and keeping the faith on the Jurassic Coast lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/09/05/rec…

Want to sponsor me to write a monograph on this architect? Serious offer. And this is why you should. Prolific inimitability: getting to grips with S.S. Teulon (1812-1873) lesseminentvictorians.com/2021/08/21/pro… via WordPress.com

A major new discovery, exclusive to the blog, for the 2nd anniversary of Less Eminent Victorians! lesseminentvictorians.com/2022/08/03/the…