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Digby Street was a turning off Barrow Road, just the far side (coming from the Easton end) of the many-arched bridge across the railway. Barrow Road crosses the foreground from right to left in this picture. The backs of the houses on the right must have had a stupendous view over the yard of the locomotive sheds. The left-hand side of the street has already gone and the rest had followed by October 1971. Just visible over the tops of the houses is one of the gas holders belonging to the gas works in Day's Road. It was dismantled in 1981. The lintel set into the right-hand wall suggests a vanished shop window, and perhaps that was a store room behind. Of the graffito on the same right-hand wall I can make out only the date, 1931. The shop on the opposite corner lasted longer.
It would be difficult to identify this precise spot today. The present Barrow Road is a new road on an entirely different alignment. On an A-Z it appears to cross the middle distance before continuing off left as the elevated St Phillips Causeway. The area is now mostly light industry.
Looking down Gladstone Street, Easton, from close to its junction with Easton Road, Friday 1st May 1970. The left-hand side had gone by January 1972 and the houses on the right had followed by the summer. Easton Way, part of the council's stillborn Outer Circuit Road scheme, was constructed across the foreground during 1973. Further down, new housing came on the right and a school on the left.
The lady is perhaps returning from an errand to one of the shops then surviving in Easton Road ...Bindon's the ironmonger perhaps. On the newly exposed interior walls of the houses, fireplaces, wallpaper and the outline of cupboards, floors and stairs may be seen.
Union Street, Bristol, photographed on Sunday 5th December 1982. In the mid-1970s the reaction against the demolition of old buildings and the kind of architecture which had replaced them was so complete that by the early 80s it was impossible to pull down any pre-20th century building, however undistinguished. The trouble was that old buildings were often not suited to modern uses. "Façading" came in. Here the frontage of the former Phillip's furniture shop is being kept upright while new shops are inserted behind.
At the end of the street, the statue of Samuel Morley (a 19th century philanthropist and Bristol MP) is still on the island in the middle of the Horsefair. It had originally stood in the road outside St Nicholas's church in Baldwin Street, but had become an impediment to traffic and was moved. Soon another move would be necessary, for statues of Victorian grandees had no place in the whizzy new Bristol, and Morley gave way to the bizarre, trampoline-like Broadmead "gateway".
Just to the right of the statue and behind the Belisha beacon can be seen a modern office block which has now been demolished. It enjoyed considerable esteem among architectural commentators and was decidedly preferable to the wishy-washy building which has since replaced it.
VHS videotapes, big sellers at this time of year but now a thing of the past, are advertised on the hoarding. HMV had been in occupation of the right-hand corner premises since the chemists, Strode, Cosh & Penfold, closed down in the early 70s.
The old cinema, an office block and the bowling alley have been demolished to make way for a new hotel (I think)
The old Mackays Aerated Water Factory on Money Street in Northbridge - currently under redevelopment as apartments.
Well I guess it beats demolition.
Hasn't emerged that far yet. Pretty empty looking except for the remnants of the old Georgia Pacific pulp mill being preserved for art. On the hill behind the waterfront is downtown Bellingham.
Near this area is a temporary dirt bike area that wasn't hard to build and brings activity to the waterfront. It is now (April 2020) temporarily closed due to worries about drawing too many people into close proximity with one another during the corona virus scare.
I haven't used that facility yet as I'm more of a bicyclist for transportation rather than for things like jumps. I was going to say I am not a sport cyclist, but sport implies competition. The dirt track isn't necessarily competition. I'm not into competition either.
One of the last groups of houses left standing in the lower part of Wells Road Totterdown. It would soon be demolished. In the foreground is the surface of New Walls Road. Wednesday 3rd March 1973.
The Mailbox is due to be redeveloped.
There is a temporary walking diversion from the main entrance on Suffolk Street Queensway, and up Severn Street.
It leads to a tunnel that gets you to the final escalators (to get to the restaurants and BBC Birmingham etc).
For more information visit here New access route to the Mailbox
Exit to Gas Street Basin.
The Mailbox is due to be redeveloped.
There is a temporary walking diversion from the main entrance on Suffolk Street Queensway, and up Severn Street.
It leads to a tunnel that gets you to the final escalators (to get to the restaurants and BBC Birmingham etc).
For more information visit here New access route to the Mailbox
New cinema maybe built around here.
Homes being refurbished in response to the redevelopment of the nearby Can Company in Baltimore.
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The cleared remains of the Schooner Pub, Palace of Pleasure Amusements, and the Ocean Beach Funfair. Will the redevelopment ever start?
The first two buildings are now complete and beginning to be occupied. The next phase will be the removal of this building, the remainder of the original Mall, for replacement by townhouses and more rental apartments.
The remaining tenants are BC Liquor and Dance Co and they are due to leave this month. The lower part of the building used to be a community centre for the whole of the village, but that was wound up some time ago. Pedalheads used the pool for teaching children to swim but that has also ceased.
By Wednesday 14th May 1980 a new dual carriageway, Newfoundland Way, had been built to carry the M32's traffic from Lower Ashley Road roundabout to Newfoundland Street. The end of its central reservation is still being laid down in the middle of the road. The left side of the street has been cleared for widening as far as the junction with Stratton Street. Beyond, the group of Georgian houses (above the heads of the walking figures, with chimney pots) remained as an obstacle to traffic. The Council, of course, wished to demolish them and a campaign to preserve them was started. Getting wind of this, the Council slyly demolished the buildings one Sunday morning before they could be listed.
This is the area where John Skelsey had his land in the 1850s. It is about to become the Pan American village for the Toronto Games of 2015.
The building above the bonnet of the digger is interesting. It has had various manifestations in its history. The timing of John Skelsey's return to England and the construction of the building suggest that his land was bought by the Schools Board.
The First Annual Report (for the year ending December 3l, 1859) of the Superintendent of the Public Schools for The City of Toronto explained that: "A Handsome brick School House has been erected on the corner of Palace and Cherry Streets in the Ward of St. Lawrence for the increased accommodations of residents in that part of the city. It consists of two school rooms, one for boys and the other for girls, each capable of receiving from 80-90 children. A master has been employed to take charge of the boys; and the former mistress of the [Enoch Turner] school retains charge of the girls. The new building is of so substantial a character that, should it in the course of time become necessary, the roof can be raised and an upper storey added so as to double the present accommodation."
In time that building was superceded. It was taken over by a hotel. "A well known and popular hotel in this city is the Cherry Street Hotel, Mr. J.J.. Darcy, proprietor, situated at the comer of Cherry and Front Street. The building, a commodious brick structure, was originally a school house for a period of 45 years. In 1890 it was remodelled and rebuilt into a hotel and opened by Mr. Robert Irvine as the Irvine House. On the 20th of June, 1892, he was succeeded by Mr. Darcy, the present proprietor, who refitted and refurnished the house throughout and has since conducted it as the Cherry Street Hotel in a manner greatly redounding to his credit. The house contains upwards of 40 neatly furnished sleeping rooms, a well equipped dining room and office. The very best to be obtained in the market is served daily in the dining room, and in the well kept bar can always be found the choicest imported wines, liquors, ales, beer, porter, stout and cigars." (From 'Toronto, the Queen City of Canada", pub. 1893
When the hotel failed the building was again extended, this time as a warehouse.
Thanks to the following website for this information, including the quotations that I have copied:
Demolition of former AMP building, corner of Lonsdale and Walker Streets Dandenong. Built around 1966-1967, it was demolished in 2012 to make way for new council offices and library.
Pacific View Elementary School was closed a number of years ago due to changing demographics in its coastal Encinitas neighborhood. It's been vacant - and deteriorating - ever since, as the school district and community debate the site's future.
Remains of former Grenda Bus depot in Dandenong, which relocated to the southern side of the railway line near Cheltenham Road. In 2012 Ventura took over Grenda's and has begun the slow rebranding process.
The Wolverhampton Station redevelopment started in 2018 and already a steel girder construction is rising.
The British Transport Police building was demolished to make way for this.
Approximately where Railway Drive used to be.
Cross Country Voyager 220013 was at platform 1.
c1970. These plans were abandoned as a result of the campaign of "Green Bans" in the Seventies...and the money, thankfully, also ran out!
Lewins Mead again, taken from the same spot as the last photo, but looking the other way, towards the Centre. At the right edge we see again the "afterthought" entrance punched through the wall, mutilating the group of three windows and disfiguring what must once have been a nicely balanced façade. The steep slope up to St Michael's Hill, with its ramshackle buildings, is no longer visible from here, having been blotted out by office blocks. This must once have been a wooded valley-side, becoming built up early in Bristol's history as a kind of suburb opposite St John's Gate, where the River Frome formed a natural moat outside the walls.
The van belongs to the Texas Homecare chain, which had a store next to the multi-storey car park off left. Set back from the road on the opposite side, where the Volkswagen camper van is parked, was a modern building belonging to a firm called Haden Engineering. You can just see the edge of it. It was demolished for the widening after a life of only a few years ...one of the earliest postwar buildings to get the chop.
Elsewhere that day Totterdown was being knocked down, preparations were being made to construct Avon House North across the road at North Street, Stokes Croft, Broadmead had just been closed to traffic in readiness for eventual pedestrianisation and the mighty CWS building on Broad Quay was in the process of being demolished.