Coal mining was the major activity for over a century in the medium sized town of Lens in Northern France but none of it remains today. ...

Newsagents and booksellers for more than 200 years, W H Smith has more than 600 stores on British high streets plus another 700 at airpo...

Opulent decorative architectural ceramics define the Victorian architectural legacy – the voracious appetite for complex ornamentation s...

Towns and cities whose eminence is overshadowed by larger, more illustrious neighbours nearly always have much to commend them. Their charm...

Rue de Londres runs at an angle across the tracks leading out of Gare St-Lazare between the Place de l’Europe and Sainte-Trinité. The reason...