Spring is coming and - just in time for the start of the cricket season - my new book on the architectural history of cricket pavilions...

On Christmas Day the cover of my forthcoming book - on the architectural history of Cricket Pavilions - appeared on Amazon's website, a...

This interesting, probably early 20th century, postcard came from Australia (thus the palm trees) and was marked 'cricket pavilion' on...

After months of hunting for iron churches, online and in person, it's time to reveal just how many 'tin tabernacles' and their wooden...

The Midland Railway reached what is now the Derbyshire village of Westhouses in 1861. Further development took several years, but...

This peculiar pavilion, seen here c1908, stood at the Woolstone Road ground of Sydenham Cricket Club in south London. The club was...

It is the end of the 1888 cricket season, and here we see Tranmere Cricket Club, winners of the L. & D. A. C. A. challenge cup, with...

This is the lovely little church of St Mary the Virgin in Northumberland, a tin tabernacle built as a mission room towards the end of the...

This is part of the prefabricated 'tin town' at Immingham (Lincolnshire), put up from 1906 to house workers building a new dock. The...

Manchester's Portable Building Company offered a wide range of speedily-erected buildings, including ‘cyclists’ cottages’ designed...

The increasing popularity of cricket towards the end of the nineteenth century provided a significant sales opportunity for manufacturers...