Brampton is a small town in Cumbria near Hadrian’s Wall east of Carlisle. We visited it in April since an elderly friend ours was brought up there.

Looking east along main street:-

Looking west:-

Town centre showing Moot Hall:-

Moot Hall closer view:-

Looking west from Moot Hall:-

A lane in Brampton:-

Buildings near Moot Hall:-

Buildings:-

On our wanderings round the town we came upon this statue of the Emperor Hadrian:-

We stopped for the night just north of Nottingham and headed for Chesterfield in the morning as we knew from our previous visit it had a thriving street market as so many towns in England do.

Somehow I’d missed almost all the Deco in the town centre.

Greenwood’s:-

Note the beautiful detailing. Rule of three in the horizontal banding and great rectangle with diamond inlay plus horizontal banding throughout:-

McDonald’s has a hint of deco:-

Last time this was a nightclub called Escapade. Now it’s Department:-

Rule of three in the windows. Good brickwork:-

Again rule of three; at least in upper windows which don’t seem to have been replaced. Good horizontal banding:-

Deco corner site. Note the detailing between the upper and lower window layers especially on the unpainted brick gable:-

As is usual the town’s deco pièce de résistance is a former Burton’s (stitched photo) :-

In amongst all this modern stuff could be found Tudor style timbering. The Twelfth Century Royal Oak:-

And an old bus, destination Brampton. We’d pass through Brampton later:-