CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE SLIDESHOW FULL SIZED The Welsh Streets in Liverpool 8 Commissioned by Place First Ltd Now on public view on High Park Street
GALLERIES
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE SLIDESHOW FULL SIZED The Welsh Streets in Liverpool 8 Commissioned by Place First Ltd Now on public view on High Park Street
Earlier this year, I was commissioned by Place First to document the first phase of the Welsh Streets regeneration project in Liverpool 8. The series of terraced streets are being refurbished so that once again the area will be again a thriving community. There was a strong campaign in the local area to have the houses saved from demolition and the project shows that not always do existing dwellings have to be flattened and replaced with high rise structures. In […]
BLUEPRINT STUDIOS, COLLIER STREET, 7.18AM The windows of Blueprint Studios glowed red, like a 4 bar electric heater. Behind me, an upstairs room in The Eagle Inn beamed bright tungsten light towards Trinity Way, like a lighthouse for those stumbling in search of the past. Behind both brick buildings the new, taller version of ancient Greengate had emerged, not quite facing in the same direction. I considered if the demolition of the Victorian architecture, and the emergence of the tower […]
-4- Canal boats traditionally travel at 4 miles per hour, which roughly equates to the speed of a brisk walking pace, and this significantly determines how the waterway is experienced. It allows us time to observe, whilst travelling, in a way often lost to us in the modern era. It’s also a constant thread back to our ancestors, who also would have journeyed along the Bridgewater Canal with the same measured progress. Over the four seasons of the year, I’ll […]
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE SLIDESHOW FULL SIZED These pictures are from projects where I have been commissioned to archive the construction of buildings. For me, I am talking to the future with these pictures. They are not a simple facsimile of the building being made, but a series of clues for future historians.