George Edmund Street

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.