It all happened on booksellers’ row

Shop of the month Bennison Fabrics, No 16, ...

The style set is returning to the very neighbourhoods it once made a habit of spurning, finds Will Hosie

Ironmongers’ Hall, London EC2 The home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers

Armigers from the Tudor and Stuart era had their moment last month, with a seal ring linked to Royal Exchange founder Sir Thomas Gresham and a ruffler once owned by philanthropist Sir Edwin Rich causing a stir at auction

Back in 1979, David and Linda Williams felt ready to move to a spacious, light house with a good-sized garden. Ideally, it would be low maintenance so as not to encroach on David’s job as head of art

Tucked in the Herefordshire countryside at Much Marcle, not far from its border with Gloucestershire, is Hellens Manor. Now presenting as a Tudor/Jacobean home, it predates those eras by some margin;