So, ages ago I posted a couple of ‘teaser’ shots from the estate with concrete cancer that’s being demolished. Well, I think I did. I can’t actually find them right now, which is disconcerting. Since I can’t and it only adds 2 pictures, I’ll repost them too… [Click images for large versions]
Anyway, this estate is being demolished because it’s got concrete cancer and here are some very poor quality photos (see end for explanation)
Sadly, I took all these shots on film that had expired. Why? Because my dad shot the film 4 years ago, but only used up 9 photos. Being the pillock I am, I reckoned I’d get away with it being 6 months out of date. Apparently I was wrong. All the shots have come out grainy, and there’s some odd colour casts on others. Anyway, here’s the best of ’em.
Sadly, all the houses are pretty well locked up and borded up (steel panels bolted / welded over every doorway).
The entire place is like this; semi abandoned. Some houses are still to be vacated; but entire streets consist of borded up houses. It’s a very eerie place to wander around.
The smaller windows seem to have been boarded up on the inside. There’s a bit of inequality in the bording up though; some houses are completely covered in metal panels, others are only covered on the ground floor.
Some houses have obviously been either out of use for a long time, or untended, but were slightly more difficult to get to at any rate….
At least compared to some of the others….
In some areas it really felt like people had just upped and left. The lawns littered with random bits of their now abandoned lives in this estate…
Other areas though had been stripped of anything useful (or possibly dangerous); and nature has already taken its course.
It’s sometimes a bit odd what you find in people’s back yards…
The houses did, until recently it’d appear, still have the above-ground telephone connections, but loads of these have actually been stripped out (or broken and are now hanging limply from the poles)… Leaving these GPO insulators high up and awaiting their fate.
And finally… the light stands defiant opposite an entire block of demolished houses.
….I think that light’s gone now, actually….
