Christopher Howse

The art of street furniture

On his lockdown rambles, Christopher Howse finds beauty and solace in London’s coal plates, bollards and brick bonds

Look down! The patterns on coal plates, 150 of which were recorded in sketches by a medical student in 1863, were incised to stop people slipping

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