Window Sills

We at Tumbla bow to no man, bar one, in our interest in Window Sills. The one man to whom Tumbla bows is the inestimable Harry Mount, author of 'A Lust for Window Sills' - the very first book to be covered by our TumblaWiki book reviews.

For Tumbla, the humble window sill is a varied and important of our building fabric and one that is full of stories, and history. As Mr Mount tells us, the very shape of our window sills comes from key developments in our history, like the Great Fire of London.

It is a bit unfair to list Harry Mount's book on a page about Window Sills, as his book is so much more. It is a wonderful meander through architectural history and how it manifests itself in the urban landscape we see aournd us in British cities.