There is something pleasing about the aged, worn materials that form these roofs in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Just as there is something attractive about the way they all differ, all cluster together, and collectively make a jumble that the eye finds fascinating. Collyweston stone tiles, slates from Wales and Westmoreland, bricks from locally dug pits and Peterborough, stone from nearby Barnack and elsewhere, and clay chimney pots from who knows where, can all be seen and all make a contribution. The constituent parts of the buildings look timeless but few, if any, date from before the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and quite a bit is nineteenth century.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Sony DSC-RX100
