Nearly 5000 of England's best buildings collected: England's Best Buildings. Over 500 towns visited: England

My main groups:

(Officially) England's Best Buildings

English Heritage - Buildings at Risk

Olde Inns of England

Olde Breweries of England

English Market Towns

English Market and Village Crosses

Historic Swindon

Liberal Landmarks in Britain

Triumph Cars

Real Matchbox Cars

Roundabout Art

See also:

Swindon!

Car Memories and Guesses

===Why flickr?===

Didn't like film.

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But digi Canons became affordable. Hurrah!

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Won a photo comp in the NME with a teeny digishot from Glastonbury!

But frustrated by shutter lag etc, bought an unaffordable Canon dSlr.

Got a photo of Coate Water in the Independent.

But, in general, even I wasn't looking at my photos....

Then (in 2007), finally got to tour Europe.

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Signed up to flickr to share the photos with relatives.

Dumped all the old stuff on.

Met some great contacts.

Joined Car Memories & Guesses.

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And UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Photo'd some bands.

Indulged my gothic side.

Got invited to increasingly obscure groups.

And to a wedding in India.

Took a photo in Mumbai

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"Good shot" said Jeevan Balwant of Mumbai.

Picked up a "stone"...

...to ask why he didn't take more local photos. Noticed my "glass walls".

So I started getting out more locally, mainly photo'ing buildings to start with.

But the Swindon and listed building groups were quiet.

So I started (Officially) England's Best Buildings.

And spent about a million hours on it. And I keep posting, even though work has taken over my life, it seems. Massively grateful to those who've kept it going over the years.

Meanwhile, passed 100,000, then a million, then 10 million!! total 'views' and 1000 (then 2000) views on one photo