Grey Friday in Warwick

Today was rather a grey, and eventually rainy day.  We were in town to do a little shopping and for Lauren to get her hair done.  I took the opportunity to visit a few charity shops and wander around a few antique centres, taking a few photos along the way.

Warwick is so full of wonderful historic buildings that there is much to see.  The above 18th Century Court House is an important building but a relatively 'modern' one by comparison with some in the city.

This is the carved wooden portico and oak front door of a Tudor house in the road leading to the old East Gate.   It is by the edge of a busy road and traffic lights and easy to overlook.   You can see this house looking back through the arch where the road out of Warwick originally passed through the gate.

It would be somewhat inadequate for modern traffic in and out of the city.

Somehow I managed to catch a gap in the traffic which is normally pretty busy here.

Almost the only splash of colour near the gate today was this wonderful Victorian post box.  An adjacent plaque advises that this is one of a pair of pillar boxes modeled as Doric columns which were cast by a local company in Birmingham in 1856.  There is one by the East Gate and one at the West Gate of the city.