For some years Gavin Stamp, one of our most eminent and readable architectural historians has written a monthly column for Apollo, the preeminent architecture and fine art magazine. The subjects are simply whatever architectural or design questions happen to take his fancy it might be the splendid reopening of the magnificent Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras, or the dilapidation of a little-known church in Eastbourne, or the demise of the Routemaster bus, or a paean to wrought-iron railings.