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Built on Burke Road on a rise between the busy shopping strips that make up the Camberwell Junction and the grand catholic Our Lady of Victories Basilica, stands the striking Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England.
Almost since the beginning of 1863, Church of England Services have taken place on the site where Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England stands. In 1863, Camberwell was not the affluent and well established inner city Melbournian suburb that it is today; rather it was a small rural outpost of Melbourne. Therefore the first church, known simply as the Church of England at Camberwell, was little more than a small Victorian Gothic church of brick and stone. However Camberwell, like most of Melbourne, grew as a result of the Gold Rushes and by 1869 an additional chancel had been completed to make allowances for a congregation of around 200 people. As Camberwell's citizenry swelled in number and wealth, so too did their places of worship, and by 1887 Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England was enlarged and added to. There was no shortage of money, as by this time Camberwell was the home of wealthy industrialists, businessmen and pastoralists as well as a backbone of respectable middle class white collar workers, so the church's windows were filled with elegant and costly stained glass from companies like Mathieson and Gibson, Brooks, Robinson and Company and artists like William Montgomery. Further additions were made on the cusp of the Great War in 1914, and finally a towering spire was added after the War in 1924. In 1930 three stained glass windows by Australian husband and wife artists Christian and Napier Waller featuring the Apotheosis of David were added.
By the outbreak of the Second World War, Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England was an enormous brick an sandstone Victorian Gothic edifice, recognised as a local landmark, and a source of great pride for its wealthy and respectable congregation. Seating over 800 people, it continued to be a place of worship and many happy occasions until the night of the 18th of March 1955, when as a result of an arson attack, the grand building was destroyed by fire. Only the bell tower and spire survived, standing defiantly against the odds, pointing to the heavens.
Devastated by the arson attack, the congregation of the church rallied and engaged successful ecclesiastical architect Louis Williams to design a new Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England. The foundation stone for the new church was laid by the then Archbishop of Melbourne, The Most Reverend J. J. Booth on the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels on the 29th of September 1956. Rising like a phoenix from the ashes, the new Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England was completed within two years, finished in November 1957. Sadly, it was discovered several years after its completion, that the belfry and tower of the old Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England were seriously damaged by the heat of the 1955 fire. Constructionally compromised and therefore a danger not only to the congregation, but any passerby on busy Burke Road should the tower and spire fall into the thoroughfare, the remnants of the old church had to be demolished.
The current Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England building is architecturally very striking. The vast red brick facade rises vertically towards the sky with very little external decoration and is a fine example of Post-War Ecclesiastical architecture. In the wake of the Second World War, faced with austerity and building material shortages as well as the decimation of a workforce skilled enough to architecturally enhance revivalist buildings, architects had to re-think their designs to please their conservative clients who did not want the flat-roofed, glass encrusted boxes that were in vogue in architecturally avant-garde post-war America. Their answer was that between 1940 and 1960, they designed simplified versions of medieval churches. This link back to the more peaceful past, whilst managing the current difficulties of labour and building supplies worked beautifully. Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England is an ultra-stripped back, simplified version of a Romanesque church. It maintains a traditional rectangular shape, features a traditional pyramidal roof and has aisles that flank the central nave. Its front facade has a post-war Art Deco feel, particularly around the front porch which has elegant brick detailing and a very stylised Art Deco sandstone eagle - an attribute of Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist - above the door. This link to the past is enhanced by the two Old English Gothic style wrought iron lamps that flank the portico's outer doors. A traditional Gothic window with simplified sandstone tracery appears on the facade and is imbedded into a rounded arch which is more shallow than pre-war examples. The church's slender lancet windows have semicircular heads and feature for the most part, latticed plain glass. This allows the church's interior to be flooded with natural light even on a cloudy afternoon, such as the one when I visited Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England. Some describe the building as elegant, others austere, but the general consensus is that it is one of Louis William's finest architectural works from his very large output of work.
Inside the light filled church, the use of stained glass is at a minimum, yet there are three examples which are a throwback to Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England's glorious stained glass past. When the arsonist attack in 1955 raised the church, so many magnificent, historical and valuable stained glass windows were lost to the conflagration including the three stained glass windows by Australian husband and wife artists Christian and Napier Waller of the Apotheosis of David (shepherd, king and builder) installed in 1930. As part of the church's re-building, Napier Waller (Christian had died by 1955) was commissioned to create three new stained glass windows in memory of those from Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England who served in the two World Wars. Saint Columba, Saint Alban and Saint Aidan were unveiled in 1961. Installed to the left of the narthex, the three windows are set into their own bay with Saint Columbia on the left, Saint Alban in the middle and Saint Aidan on the right. Designed in post-war Art Deco style, Saint Columbia has an inscription which comes from Psalm 107:23 "They do business in the great waters", Saint Alban has an inscription from Psalm 76:8 "The earth trembled and was still" and Saint Aidan has an inscription from Psalm 18:10 "He did fly upon the wings of the wind".
Louis Reginald Williams (1890 – 1980) was born in Hobart, Tasmania and attended school at Queen’s College. His father was a furniture manufacturer, and the family was very religious. Louis’ interest in churches guided him into choosing a career in architecture. He was trained by architect Alexander North, with whom Louis eventually formed a joint partnership when they moved to mainland Australia and set up an architectural firm, Williams and North, in Little Collins Street in Melbourne. Although Louis was commissioned to design commercial buildings and houses, it is for his ecclesiastical buildings that he is best known. He worked mostly in either traditional Gothic or Arts and Crafts styles. Not only was he concerned about the exteriors of his churches, but the interiors as well, and he maintained a group of skilled craftsmen whom he trusted to create his designs for furniture and fittings to harmonise with the buildings he created. He also advised on stained glass, lighting and even mosaic tiling, and no detail was too small for Louis. He designed churches throughout Australia for the Church of England, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists and the Christian Scientists. His career lasted for nearly sixty-five years until he was in his mid eighties.
Inglewood house was originally built from brick in the late C18th but clad in stone and extended during the C19th. The huge conservatory, unusually on the north front of the house was probably built around 1860 and extended from ground level to half way up the second floor of the adjacent hall in order to accommodate trees. The north and east fronts were solid masonry at ground level in the same classical style as the house. In the decades around 1900 the conservatory was reduced in size to just over ground level height, possibly due to maintenance / safety issues with the old glass and iron roof. The house was owned by a number of different families over the years and slowly extended in size. It survived a major fire in the basement in 1912 and was relatively unchanged and preserved throughout the turmoil of the C20th
The hall began to be demolished in two phases as recently as 2007 and 2009.
The site is now home to the Audley Inglewood retirement village which has recreated some of the old façade in new stone to the original Inglewood Hall design. The demise of the old hall came after many years of different companies trying to find a variety of uses for the hall. Surprisingly it was not saved by conservation legislation.
These homes are being cleared for the expansion of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital across the street, which will disrupt the lives of those who live in the Avondale neighborhood. These homes were largely constructed in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, when Avondale was one of the choice neighborhoods for the city's middle class and rich. However, demographic shifts have seen many of these houses become low-income housing, and despite investment in the major institutions in the neighborhood, the residents have seen little change in their situation. The loss of the architectural heritage, along with the lack of mitigation measures for local residents, make the current situation a mess and something that needs to be changed, but there remain doubts that will happen. I have hope, however, that Avondale can be reinvigorated whilst preserving the historic buildings in the neighborhood and improving the lives of the residents in a meaningful, measurable, and noticeable way.
These houses in a small Avondale neighborhood at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Reading Road include some unique structures, such as the weird ramshackle house in the first two pictures, and the small bungalow with a large rear wing in the last two pictures, though most of the buildings on this small street were standard 1910s/20s houses that can be found throughout the city. A 1950s apartment building was built later, completing the development of this neighborhood. Most houses in this area have already been demolished, and the city seems to be looking to demolish what remains in order to amass a mega-block parcel that they can then redevelop as part of the Uptown Innovation Corridor, displacing the low-income residents who owned and rented the well-kept historic homes in the area. Though unfortunate, there do exist many other swaths of similar homes in the city, meaning that this vernacular house type isn't going to disappear soon, but the loss of so many affordable housing units in such a prime, easily accessible location will hurt low-income residents and families the most, and is an unmitigated consequence of the current city government's policies that needs to be addressed.
Just to let everyone know, this little house has fallen in on itself. I guess that means it is "sporting" the "open floor plan". There does not seem to be any move to remove it from it's spot. I will try to get an updated picture.
Edyth Walker Hall was a high-rise dormitory constructed in 1972, and housed a few hundred students in spartan accommodations on 9 floors. The building, having become functionally obsolete, was demolished in October 2020, along with the adjacent, and larger, Mary White Scott Residence Hall, built in 1969.
The last photograph I will ever take (less than a week before its demise) of the Berwyn Spindle, which was demolished in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 3, 2008 (despite public outcry) to make room for another sorely-needed cookie cutter Walgreen's building. That's progress for ya...
Spot where McDonalds was on Kings Highway (over a block of popular shops are being demolished to be 5 story condos/office spaces and whatever)
Denise Verde at the IMS after work party at The Penn Center Inn Cocktail Bar (demolished around 1990) 19th & Market Street Philadelphia July 1981
Carrieton.
The Carrieton district has a highly unreliable but average rainfall of around 300mm per annum and the elevation at 395 metres (or 1,300 feet) made it an attractive area for early pastoralists. The first leasehold in the district, the Coonatto Run near Hammond was taken out in 1851 by Alexander Grant and Hugh Proby of Kanyaka Run. Then in 1853 James Grant, one of Alexander’s brother also bought into the leasehold. The town of Carrieton stands on what was part of the Yanyarrie Run. In 1853 the Grants sank a well and built a large stone tank around- the Yanyarrie Whim which is located on the northern outskirts of Carrieton. Yanyarrie Run and Coonatto Run made up the main runs of the Grant brothers. By 1859 the combined runs exceeded 900 square miles. In 1866 the Grants bought property near Millicent for pasturage during times of drought. This was needed in that year as in 1864 they had shorn 87,000 sheep but in 1866 they only had 18,000 to shear. Their wool was carted by bullock dray down to Port Augusta. Another run in the district was Yalpara Run east of Carrieton run by John and Richard Ragless. They had their own desalination water plant in the 1870s to make the well water potable. They faced tough years and during the drought of 1866 half of their 250,000 sheep died. Their run was resumed in 1875.
Despite being many miles beyond Goyder’s Line (even Orroroo was beyond Goyder’s Line) the government resumed the Grant family runs in 1877 to survey the Hundred of Yanyarrie and establish the government towns of Carrieton and Eurelia. Both towns had settlement begin around 1878 just a couple of years before the railway to Quorn was pushed through the area in 1881. With the land sales the Grants bought some freehold land and maintained a small station on Coonatto finally selling up in 1903. As one local newspaper reported in 1880 before the droughts set in “farmers will reach the banks of the Finke River and the McDonnell Ranges”! Beyond Carrieton the town of Johnburg was established in 1882 in the Hundred of Oladdie in the Hills of the same name. But 1882 proved Surveyor General Goyder correct. The grain and the top soil blew away in a terrible drought throughout this region. It was a terrible start to the little towns of Johnburg, Carrieton and Eurelia. Yet they survived.
By 1879 Carrieton had a post office, a general store, Davies blacksmiths and coach builders- the largest operations north of Gawler. (In 1890 this business employed 31 men in Carrieton.) The Carrieton Hotel opened in 1879 with Michael O’Grady being the first publican. The Eureka Hotel opened in 1880, but closed in 1946 and was then demolished. When the government conducted a census in 1881 Carrieton had a population of 120. (Today it has around 100 people.) By then it had a railway siding. Carrieton was an important stop as the carriage lamps were all taken out at Carrieton to have their wicks cleaned and trimmed and the lamps polished before being replaced in the next train. In the early 1880s during the drought Carrieton acquired a school (1882), a police station (1884), St Raphael’s Roman Catholic Church (the large presbytery was built in 1889), a small Methodist Church (1882), an Anglican Church (1888) and the railway station, built in 1885 at a cost of £1,500. The first agricultural show was held in Carrieton in 1882. These days the town has an annual night time rodeo which started in 1953.
After the droughts of the early 1880s came the rabbit plague, the dust storms, the grasshopper plagues, the mice plagues and outbreaks of typhoid.
True's Yard is all that remains of King's Lynn's old fishing community, the North End, which existed for hundreds of years, and which was finally demolished in the clearances of the 1930’s and the 1960’s. Once hundreds of families lived within a stone's throw of their chapel of St Nicholas, which still dominates the area, and the North End had its own boat builders, chandlers, sail makers, pubs, bake houses and school. Now, although the fishing fleet still sails regularly from King's Lynn, the old way of life has gone.
The age of the two remaining fishermen’s cottages is uncertain but we know that they are mentioned in the deeds of 1802. All the items in the cottages came from either these or other fishing cottages in the area and were donated by local North End families.
The cottages were lit by either oil lamps or candles. Coal fires were used and the hot ashes remaining at the end of the day were taken upstairs to the tiny bedroom fireplace to warm the room through.
At one time father, mother and nine children lived here. The only bed upstairs slept all nine children - five at the top and four at the bottom. Mum and Dad slept on the floor with a curtain screening from the children. It is unusual to find a cooking range in such a small cottage - normally they would only have had a open fire to cook on and anything that needed baking would be taken to the North End bakery, and the baker would bake the food for a halfpenny. The floor was made of brick and when the men returned with the catch it would be shot on to the floor and the family would sort out the rubbish such as weeds, starfish etc before selling it. One can imagine the smell!
The rugs on the ground floor of both cottages are genuine early 19th century North end rag rugs, always with red in the middle. The fisherfolk were very superstitious and believed that the red would ward off the "evil eye." The theory was that if the devil looked down the chimney he would see the red patch and think that another devil was already in residence and clear off and bother another family!
There was no sanitation at all. No lavatory, bathroom, kitchen, or water. The nine children slept in the bed upstairs - 5 at the top and 4 at the bottom, mum and dad slept on the floor. The second cottage is furnished in the period of the late 1920's (when they were last occupied).
This photo was taken in 2002.
On the left is the Oceanview Motel. It is still in business. The Admiral is still in business. But the three hotels past the Admiral have since been Demolished.
Ex Scalo FILZI
Fino a poco tempo fa questo era lo Scalo ferroviario FILZI nel cuore della città di TRENTO . Con l'apertura del nuovo scalo ferroviario Roncafort Trento questa area in foto un pò alla volta è stata demolita . Ecco in questi dettagli ciò che rimane . Io a questa zona sono molto affezionato anche per i 38 anni di vita mia passati proprio quà vicino . Da ragazzino nella notte se mi svegliavo sentivo i rumori di manovra dei treni allo scalo , schiamazzi dei ferrovieri oltre tutti i treni che transitavano sulla linea Brennero , se facevo fatica a prendere sonno magari per l'ansia della scuola questo Scalo mi faceva compagnia con i suoi rumori .
Cambiando casa mi sono spostato a quasi 10 km da questa zona ... ma a casa mia lo Scalo FILZI vive ancora , nella mia taverna di casa mia c'è una macchia di pietrisco dello scalo sulla parete ... potevo metterci dei sassi pregiati , sicuramente più belli ma ho preferito legarmi ad un ricordo di vita che non dimenticherò mai !
In this picture I took pictures of the details of what remains of a railroad freight yard. This area located in the heart of the city of Trento was demolished with the opening of the new railway station Roncafort. I am very fond of this area because I lived for 38 years around this area. If I could not sleep the noise of operation of freight trains kept me company. In my new home I have a small wall made of stones in the basement of the cargo terminal demolished. I preferred the memories instead of precious stones !
TRENTO 05.02.2012
Caernarfon Town Walls near Castle Ditch.
Caernarfon's town walls are a medieval defensive structure around the town of Caernarfon in North Wales. The walls were constructed between 1283 and 1292 after the foundation of Caernarfon by Edward I, alongside the adjacent castle. The walls are 734 m (2,408 ft) long and include eight towers and two medieval gatehouses. The project was completed using large numbers of labourers brought in from England; the cost of building the walls came to around £3,500, a large sum for the period. The walls were significantly damaged during the rebellion of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294, and had to be repaired at considerable expense. Political changes in the 16th century reduced the need to maintain such defences around the town. Today the walls form part of the UNESCO world heritage site administered by Cadw. Archaeologists Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham describe the defences as "a remarkably intact walled circuit".
Grade I listed building.
History
The borough of Caernarfon was established by Edward I of England under the Statute of Wales in 1284. It was the centre of government for N Wales and was protected by the erection of the Town Wall, with Caernarfon Castle at its S end. The construction of the Town Wall had begun in 1283 in conjunction with the building of Caernarfon Castle, probably under the direction of James of St George who was architect of the castle. Masonry work on the first phase of the Town Wall was completed by 1285, re-using some stone from Segontium Roman fort. The Town Wall was badly damaged in the native uprising of 1294 and were restored and improved in 1295 at a cost of £1195. The wall walk and towers were further repaired in 1309-12. Of other entrances, only a single postern gate has survived intact, the Greengate to the SE. Former posterns on the W side are infilled and can be seen in the W wall of the church of St Mary and gable end of the police station. Another postern, the Water Gate at the end of Castle Ditch, has been altered. Further openings facing Bank Quay, from Church Street, Market Street and Northgate Street, are later insertions. The bell tower at the NW corner was converted for ecclesiastical use as accommodation for the chaplain of the church of St Mary, built 1307-16. The Bath Tower facing the Promenade was converted in 1823 when the Earl of Uxbridge created public baths on the site of the present 11-17 Church Street, part of a scheme to attract visitors to the town, when the upper stage of the Bath Tower became a reading room. The main E and W entrances survive substantially intact (are listed as separate items).
Exterior
High coursed rubble-stone wall in several straight sections forming an irregular plan and a circuit approximately 730m long, with 2 gate houses (listed as separate items) and eight 2-stage round towers contrasting with the polygonal towers of the castle. The quality of masonry in the wall is variable, accounted for by various repairs and restorations. The towers have mainly open gorges and were originally crossed by timber bridges, one of which has been repaired on the NE side. The upper stages of the towers have arrow loops, while the embattled parapet, where it survives, has similar loops to the merlons. The walls have regular brattice slots. At the SE end the wall has been demolished across Castle Ditch and begins on its N side, where on the inner side facing Hole-in-the-Wall Street stone steps to the wall walk survive at high level, and where there is a postern gate, known as the Greengate, under a 2-centred arch with portcullis slot. The adjacent tower has a shouldered lintel to a fireplace in the upper stage. The wall, with 2 towers and the East Gate to High Street, continues on a high bank, around to the N side facing Bank Quay. The NE tower survives to the full height of its battlements and has stone steps on the inner side. A skewed archway has been inserted leading to Northgate Street. Further W, an inserted segmental arch spans a double-carriageway entrance to Market Street, while the tower on its W side also retains stone steps. A lower segmental arch leads to Church Street immediately to the E of the church.
On the NW side the church of St Mary is integral with the Town Wall and its NW, or Bell Tower, houses the vestry, while its upper storey served as a priest's dwelling. Facing N it has a 2-light Tudor window under a hoodmould, with sunk spandrels, while the W face has a plainer 2-light window in the upper stage. On the parapet is a gabled bellcote. A blocked former postern gate is on the return facing the promenade, incorporated into the church. The next tower facing the promenade is the Bath Tower, which has early C19 detail in connection with the baths established in 1823. It has its doorway in the S side facing the Promenade, which has a pointed arch with studded boarded door and Y-tracery overlight. In the N and S faces the upper stage has restored 3-light mullioned and transomed windows incorporating iron-frame casements, and restored embattled parapet. A 2-storey projection with parapet is built behind. At the W end of the High Street is the former gatehouse known as Porth-yr-Aur, beyond which there is a single tower behind the former jail. The tower is enclosed at the rear by a late C19 wall with segmental arch flanked by small-pane windows under lintels. Further S is a segmental arch across Castle Ditch, on the S side of which the reveal and part of the keyed arch of an earlier gateway is visible, while the wall abutting the castle is an addition of 1326.
Reasons for Listing
Listed grade I, the medieval Town Wall has survived to almost the complete extent of the original circuit, defining the medieval town, and with Caernarfon Castle is of national significance in the survival of a medieval garrison town.
Scheduled Ancient Monument CN 034.
World Heritage Site.
Hole in the Wall Street runs on the other side of the wall.
Site of the Green Gate.
The Medallion Theatre in Dallas Texas located in the Medallion Shopping Center. Demolished. What originally started out as a Single screen theatre eventually became a 3 screen Theatre in 1986. In 1993, it was divided up to be a 5 screen Theatre before closing.
The Medallion Theatre closed on December 13, 2001.
The theatre was demolished in May of 2005.
A KOHLs has built in its' place.
The structure was built in 1968.
Photo Taken: January 21 2005
Photo Taken By: Randy A. Carlisle
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Inside the Lobby area of the Crest Theatre, located on Lancaster Ave in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas Texas. Demolished! This Theatre has been closed for some time now. Altho! It looks like someone is trying to do something with it. Time will tell.. What a Grand Theatre this must have been back in its time...
The Crest Theatre opened March 30, 1948. Closed?
Demolished late 2008, early 2009..
**UPDATE!** The Crest has been Demolished!.. See My Comment below...
Today (2010), A Save A Lot now occupies the lot.
Photo Taken: September 3 2007
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The Harlem and Irving Plaza is expanding so they bought the land and tore this marble building down.
An apartment building in Toronto in the process of being demolished to make way for a new condominium.
From the second "boiled" film - and the only shot which can be saved (and then only for what it shows). Macfin cabin once controlled the junction with the Derry Central line (closed 1950). The cabin was a standard NCC design, probably dating from the early 1930s, and was still open in 1967 when Irish Railways Today (TRA 1967) was published. The absence of broken windows suggest it was not long closed in May 1975, but was demolished soon after. Had the cabin been in England, it would probably now reside on a preserved line.
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Now-demolished Endeavour Hills Secondary College located on Amalfi Drive, bordered by the Monash Freeway and Power Road.
The school opened in 1969 as Doveton North Technical School which was near Doveton High School when there were separate school systems for technical secondary education in Victoria. In 1974 it changed name to Endeavour Hills Secondary College with the new suburb taking shape between the school and Heatherton Road - by then separated from Doveton by the new Mulgrave (now Monash) Freeway.
With the phasing out of separate technical schools in the late 1980's it was renamed Endeavour Hills Secondary College in 1990. the nearby Doveton High School was renamed Joseph Banks Secondary College before closure a few years later under the Kennett Government.
For a period in the 1990s and 2000's it was known as Eumemmerring College - Endeavour Hills Campus.
In recent years enrollments were in steady decline as sudents preferred larger and newer schools nearby. It was closed at the end of the 2012 school year with only 137 students enrolled during that year.
The school buildings stood until demolition in 2015 - by then they had succumb to squatters and vandalism, including a major fire which destroyed the hall near Power Road.
This apartment had been vacant for some time before being demolished. In it's place stands a row of townhomes. They actually did an excellent job to mix the new with the existing architecture of the area.
Sign from an era passed at the corner of Central and Montrose. The business closed a couple years ago, but the sign stayed up as new strip mall-type buildings were constructed around it.
I drove past in early August 2008 to check the status: The sign has been replaced with something from the chain fast food place that's there now.
The remains of a fine facade on Lea Bridge Road. Cynically demolished by developers who had promised to conserve it.
From the Hackney Gazette:
www.hackneygazette.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=HKYGOnli... Aug 2006 14:54:07:973&tBrand=HKYGOnline&tCategory=search
'The synagogue, which features in Nikolaus Pevsner's famous work of reference for architectural historians "The Buildings of England", was a locally listed building and was being considered by English Heritage for national listing.
Built in 1931, the only London example of the work of architect Marcus Glass, the building was a lasting testament to the Jewish families who contributed to the beautiful decoration of its interior.'
He was known to have designed an extension to Reece's premises in Hawke Street, Liverpool 3.
Since demolished.
Shot for Active Assignment Weekly, theme "Abandoned".
WIT
This is the former headquarters of a telecom firm, but is now empty and will be demolished soon.
Shot on a 30+ year long expired Ilford HP5 film.
Architect: Bernard Miller.
Built 1957.
"St Aidan/The Place to Be, Speke.
When the church of St Aidan in Speke fell into serious disrepair, with water seeping through the roofs and a failing boiler, the congregation identified two options: repairing the building – and at the same time re-ordering it to make it more welcoming - or moving out.
The church building was large and the necessary works would have run into many thousands of pounds – a daunting prospect for a congregation numbering 15-20 people in a deprived area. Moreover, it was far from ideally situated. A once thriving shopping centre opposite had been boarded up, vandalised and eventually demolished, leaving the church building isolated with no-one having any reason to walk by.
Matters came to a head one Christmas when the heating failed completely and the congregation decided that a move was essential. During the course of much prayer and discussion on the subject of ‘what is church?’, the congregation agreed that ‘church’ was not the church building per se but that, nevertheless, St Aidan’s did need a building of some kind as a focus for the community. The gift of hospitality was a theme which also emerged very strongly. In Speke, many people did not think to go into a church and so a move to a different building offered an opportunity to reach out to the community in a new way.
After an interim move to a local school, the church found a vacant shop in Speke which met the congregation’s needs, including its vision to offer the gift of hospitality to the community. "
Source:
www.churchgrowthrd.org.uk/UserFiles/File/Resourcing_Missi...
Edit. March 2015.
Closed and boarded up.
Edit.
Demolished August 2017.