Post 11

I was supposed to take some fresh images of my own for the following blog posts, but due to unforeseen circumstances (involving the human equivalent of pond life), I am not able to bring those photos to the wonderful world of the internet, so I am having to use some images I took for a previous piece of coursework last semester.

The theme of these photographs was old buildings and architecture, mainly focusing on this old, disused mill here in Bradford.

This first image is a shot of the mill and its surroundings how it would have appeared something like 50 years ago. While the older terraced shops you can see in the photo are obviously still there, there is significant regeneration going on in this area, so at one point, this building would have been surrounded by buildings like this.

This image is one of a number of these images that shows how the mill is integrated into the lives of the locals, because the style of the mill was similar or the same as the terraced shops before they had pebbledash placed all over the front of them. Also, the mill would have been built with the terraced shops and houses built around it. Many inner-cities of the time were built like this, with the houses and other local amenities built around the mill, which would have been in the centre of all the action. It was where most of the people who lived on that estate would have worked. They would have left school at the age of 14 and gone straight into the (dangerous) workhouse.

The framing of the image suggests to me that the buildings in the foreground are the buildings that are still in use and are staying for the foreseeable future, whereas the mill is disused and so it fades more and more into the past as time goes on and its demolition gets nearer, and as the mill is further in the distance in this photo, that suggests that soon the mill will be in the distant past as well.