The English Buildings blog – that I started reading thanks to Liberal England – recently paid a trip to Leominster.

How can I describe Leominster? My family are from there on my father’s side, but I was born and spent the first part of my life in Tenbury Wells – more specifically Burford. So technically, is Leominster my home town? The town where I spent the second half of my childhood?

Anyway, it’s a town I’m very familiar with and it’s also a town that few people visit and fewer can pronounce. (It’s “lem-ster” – and not even all of the people who live there know that, apparently). So it was a little surprising to see English Buildings had been there at all and I was interested to see what famous building they might have chosen. The famous Grange, the enormous priory church? Some of the big old Victorian mansions up the Bargates?

In fact, they chose Lloyds Bank in Corn Square, a building I probably passed every day when I lived there, and that just fit into the square and seemed a little unremarkable.

I’d certainly never noticed the key feature that English Buildings highlighted – the extra carving over the portico. Next time I return, I shall have to make sure I look out for it.