Montague Burton, the tailor of taste. But, imho, not so tasteful these days on Long Eaton High Street. I have just been alerted to the ...

I used to visit Ilford in the 1980s mainly for the shops, as a change from the ones in Romford. At that time traffic was already being diver...

Delivering my cards to Oxfam bookshops is a dangerous process – shelves of delicious old antiquarian titles are always beckoning me. Keep a...

I am always on the look out for signs of original shop or pub names. Often I spot these hints of the past embedded in the masonry near the ...