Saffron

The nature of a place is intrinsically linked to its past. Even where cities have been obliterated, street patterns and names persist. Saffron Walden has never been obliterated. Its medieval buildings show off a time of economic prosperity. A boom time of trade. Properties were big, displaying wealth, sophistication and high fashion. On many of these buildings, especially in Castle Street, walls still exhibit chic patterns impressed upon the wet daub. They are structured, geometric, ordered. Quite the antithesis of Berlin Walls.