St George’s Place. This is one of Cheltenham’s oldest railing finials, probably made around 1795. It’s tall and ornate, patterned with beading and leaves and topped with a small pineapple (the detail is slightly worn on this example). It belongs to...

Tanners Lane is one of those places which has been around for centuries but you could live in Cheltenham all your life and never know of its existence. Partly because it’s far enough out of town to be off the edge of most older maps, but also because...

The second instalment in an occasional series documenting Cheltenham’s ephemeral street daubings. - Malvern Road. This well preserved set of antique scratchings can be found in the passageway leading off Malvern Road into Lansdown Terrace Lane. They...

It seems to be a little quirk of Cheltenham streetnames that most of the places called Something Square are not actually Squares at all. This is true of Whitecross Square, which is decidedly unsquare and is in fact merely street-shaped. In most other...

A year or two back I wrote a piece called Doomed: The New Penny. This is an update on the site’s redevelopment. - BEFORE: Georgian pub building, not looking its best here with its sash windows boarded up, but whose original walled courtyard retained...