Different Worlds

* UPDATE: Two things of significance have happened here since I posted this photograph. Firstly the Baptist Church has sold the building. Contemporary churches seem to prefer factories these days! Secondly the homeless sleeping area has been fenced off by the Council after a tragic event in which a homeless man was fatally burned. The homeless are moved on, their problems unsolved.

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This might be the most important photograph I have taken here in Launceston. It shows the City Baptist Church (originally built from 1883-1885 by the Christ Church Congregational denomination) at night. I am taking the shot from the other side of the street near Princes Square. A band has obviously just completed its practice session in the main church building and are about to load up their gear.

 

In the portico of Milton Hall next door a group of homeless people are set up for the night. The church runs a drop-in centre, and at night (having been moved on from the City Mall by council officers), they have taken to sleeping outside the church.

 

Two very different worlds that barely intersect.

 

 

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