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Graffiti Jam, Sovereign House, Anglia Square 2009

I’m a bit of a graffiti watcher, I like the stuff basically, it’s that human mark-making thing. The ‘remember me’ trope. I’ve written about it a little bit before, arborglyphs at Blickling springs to mind. I’ve also watched a lot of...

Collapsing new buildings: Barrack Road Gasometer

Collapsing new buildings

Another thing to collect, often more by chance than design. These are unmistakable monuments in our urban landscapes and I happened to pass this yesterday in Great Yarmouth and happened to stop and get my camera out and take a few snaps of it after it skylined in...

Westlegate: The tall boy at the back

Collapsing new buildings, Hidden history

I first met Westlegate tower in the 1970s, I would have been about seven or eight. It was just part of the background noise in a city where I had yet to link up all the parts. In 1975 it was just a place where my brother-in-law worked. And on a couple of occasions I...

Collapsing new buildings: Sheffield

Collapsing new buildings

I used to go to Sheffield a fair bit, less so now as one of the reasons we went as often as we did (one of my children) now lives in Slovakia, one of the estimated 2 million Britons living in Europe that handily get ignored by the hysterics burbling on about...

Back in the HMSO

Collapsing new buildings, Hidden history

The now redundant HMSO building, Sovereign House in Anglia Square Norwich North. This was shot from the first floor of what would have been a two storey ‘Mall’ or shopping centre as we called them before America snuck in under a veil of capitalist freedom...