Local Architecture.
The photos in this section focus on buildings which are characteristic of different places, and often on how they have been adapted to new use in order to retain them.

Miners' cottages built from local brick - Highley, Shropshire.

Co-op foodstore Highley Shropshire, which incorporates a Post Office.

A building in Tewksbury fitted out to modern building standards, but retaining its original exterior.

Shop in Hay on Wye, a town now noted for its devotion to book selling.

One of a significant number of old shops in Leominster successfully adapted to modern use - here a Jazz Café

It is a current truism that everywhere is looking more and more like everywhere else, and that local distinctiveness is under threat.

Photos in this section highlight positively distinctive elements of a variety of localities.

Sheep Fold, Northumberland

Brittany - Côte des Légendes:

The fascinating granite rock coast near Kerlouan in the Côte des Légendes -'Pays des Abers', Brittany

Birmingham to Worcester canal.

Morris Dancing is a very good exemplar of local traditions being maintained (sometimes revived) and adapting to changing circumstances.

Dancers outside the Selfridges building in Birmingham (MS24)

Morris dancers near the 'Rotunda' in Birmingham

Rag-jacketed Border Morris dancers in action