When I write a new character or setting I’ll often look for images which create them in my head. Sometimes they’re people or places I know, or have known, often they’re just something which matches the vague picture I have in my head. These are just a few and will be extended from time to time.
Entrance to the fictitious pub, The Victory, in A Shadowed Livery 
This photograph of my great-grandfather, was the catalyst for family history research and the eventual novel A Handkerchief for Maria 
In A Pretty Folly there are knight’s tombs 
Father Guen’s church in Where Every Man 
The courtyard where Uncle Gideon lives in Where Every Man 
James’ and Rachel’s cottage in Brittany 
The view from James Given’s front door in Kenilworth, Warwickshire