I'll Miss It

[poliphilo]

The railway warehouse on Queens Rd had stood empty since Dr Beeching closed the goods yard it served. There had been talk of finding some other use for it- as workshops or a hotel or even a railway museum- but nothing ever happened. I crept inside once with my sister and her future husband (it was very dank and bird-limey) and she took photographs.

Last week we noticed that they'd closed part of the road. On Friday the machines moved in. Now there's nothing there but a fifteen foot mound of rubble. 

It had a curved facade (dictated I believe by the shape of the site) which made it one of the more attractive buildings in a town that doesn't have much good architecture.

Comments

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I've seen some lovely restorations - we've had local mills adapted as flats or office space, or even retail outlets...

Where there's a will, there's a way...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There are some round here as well. I wish there were more.