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In the 1960s Lewins Mead was a dim, cobbled backstreet of little workshops and factories reached by passageways and flights of steps. I know because I delivered to quite a few of them on the first job I had after leaving school. In 1970 a three-lane one-way street, part of the Inner Circuit Road, was driven through, completely obliterating this ancient thoroughfare. A couple of the buildings lingered on for a few years. This one was part of a brewery I think. It looks like the work of W. B. Gingell. The photo was taken on Saturday 24th February 1973. The building came down in April.
This photo is by Shirley Davis.
We're back into the work we're doing on documenting the market hall before it's redeveloped. Here's one of Shirley's well seen views of the Hall.
Chesterfield Borough Council is redeveloping the Market Hall and replacing all the interior shopping areas and reconditioning much of the building. This will take from early 2012 to early 2013.
The Council has asked Chesterfield Photographic Society to record this change and you'll see lots of photos as time progresses.
The photos all appear in:
www.flickr.com/groups/1806033@N22/
Other flickr members are welcome to post photos, please see the Group description.
The modern equivalent of the previous photo has us standing on the island in the middle of Lawrence Hill Roundabout, with its grafitti-daubed, wind-tunnel passageways and sex maniac-haunted paths. If this photo doesn't look very interesting it's because the area is now visually sterile. When my aunt lived in Easton Road, the back of her house looked out over this area. I think the clearances must already have begun; at the end of her garden was a piece of waste ground where a house had once stood. The ground was smothered with orange marigolds, gone wild from its ruined garden. Beyond was a close-packed area of streets with story-book names ...Lion Street, Seal Street, Twinnell Road. Children pedalled their tricycles or played hopscotch, using a bit of terracotta flower -pot for chalk. Girls skipped. Terrifying leg-humping dogs snuffled around and ferocious housewives, fags dangling from over-lipsticked mouths, stood gossiping on their doorsteps wearing their indoor garb of "pinny", "fleecy-lined" slippers and "turbans".
The liveliness of streets and the vigour of their pavement life were doomed. Thousands of people must live in these flats but you never seem to see any of them. Photo taken Saturday 17th May 1980.
October 2013 update of the demolition of Five Ways Shopping Centre, preparing for the redevelopment into a hotel.
When finished it will be Park Regis, as developed by Seven Capital.
A Delux 4 Star Hotel.
View of the demolition from St Martin's Street.
Five Ways Tower seen behind the demolition of Five Ways Shopping Centre.
Work underway on new blocks of flats on the site of the former Gracemount multi-storey tower blocks and surrounding parkland.
This view looks down towards the Northfield Hotel on the Lasswade Road from the public path.
The development is part of the City of Edinburgh Council 21st Century Homes programme. Phase 1: Building 67 homes for social rent, 20 homes for midmarket rent and 12 homes for sale under a shared equity scheme. Phase 2: Building 70 flats and 46 houses for sale, including sale under a shared equity scheme. Work started on site in November 2010 and was completed in 2013.
The new streets are to be known as Linden Avenue and Philip Terrace. Linden as in Lime tree because of the avenues of limes originally on this site (ironically a good number of these have been removed during the redevelopment). Philip after the TB pioneer Dr Robert Philip who had a brucellosis-free dairy farm at Gracemount.
Council chief's visit www.flickr.com/photos/edinburghcouncil/sets/7215762701408...
Council page www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/209/regeneration_and_town_centr...
Cruden Homes
Shahjhanabad Redevelopment Corporation a Delhi government organisation had arranged a heritage walk from Adhamkhan Tomb in Mehrauli to Dargah of Sufi saint Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki. The walk was guided by Dr Navina Jafa. About 70 persons of different age groups paticipated. The walk concluded with qawwali by Idris Qawall and his group..It is good initiative of Delhi Government to generate interest in Delhi's heritage..Delhi Government is seeking World Heritage Status for Delhi
PrairieWalk Pond/Dragonfly Landing Information
PrairieWalk Pond – PrairieWalk Pond is a 4.5 acre recreational area in Downtown Lisle containing: a two acre pond with curving shoreline, scenic overlooks, lighted walking trails, fountains that turn color at night, a gazebo, seating areas, a preserved wetland, colorful native plantings, educational signage and a children's play area called Dragonfly Landing.
The length of the walking trail is about 1/3 of a mile, so three times around the pond is one mile.
Prairie Walk Pond was created to effectively manage downtown storm water, prevent flooding and facilitate quality downtown redevelopment. The pond is eight feet deep and holds 2.8 million gallons of water.
A $400,000 OSLAD (Open Space Acquisition Development) Grant from the Il Dept of Natural Resources helped transform the site into a wonderful recreational area for people of all ages
Dragonfly Landing – Children’s Play Area contains three “zones”
1 Nature Themed Play Area (tree house, cattail swingers, climbing frog, leaping lily pads)
2 Gathering Zone – Shelter with a living green roof and seating
3 Splash Pad – Giant flower misters, jet streams, water tunnel, water jelly and jets
Cost: All amenities are free to the public.
Parking: Free parking is available in the Garfield Parking Lot (observe signs). No parking on Garfield Avenue.
View the high resolution image on my photo website
March 23, 2021:
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Mississauga,
Mississauga Transit,
Mississauga (miWay) Transit,
CCTT (City Centre Transit Terminal),
Mississauga (miWay) Transit CCTT (City Centre Transit Terminal) Redevelopment,
CCTT Will Undergo A Complete Interior Renovation To Be Completed Fall 2021 At Sq One Mall,
Creative Shanghai, a redeveloped factory area, designed by Deng Kunyan.
See my blog for more details (http://bloggingcarsten.blogspot.com/2009/04/creative-shanghai-verwunschener-garten.html), in German
On the roof where a restaurant has extended it's business space buy building a toillet block the the right and private dining rooms to the left. There is also a large function room.
I've recently acquired an interesting ring binder of photographs and plans showing various housing schemes undertaken by the old Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell and dated May 1963. The binder is marked "FOH District Town Planning" and likely the initials stand for F.O.Hayes; Camberwell being unusual amongst London Borough councils in having a Borough architect. Hayes joined the council, as Director of Housing, in 1952 and was responsible for a series of hosuing developments at a time when municipal, or social, housing was amongst one of the most foremost topics of the day. A backlog of redevelopment of slum houses, worsened by wartime damage, saw many British councils heavily involved in slum clearance and looking towards the 'new' architecture of the period to both provide the numbers of housing units needed at a cost that could be afforded. Camberwell had been created as a Metropolitan Borough in 1900 and was merged into the new London Borough of Southwark in 1965.
This series of plans, designs, sketches and photographs of maquettes show the radical proposals for Camberwell Green, the still busy crossroads where the north - south route of Camberwell Road and Denmark Hill meets the east - west route between the Oval and Peckham. The local shops, along with houses, bus garages and the remaining 'green' of Camberwell Green were to be swept away and replaced with a new gyratory system, along with a relocated Green, flanked by a new civic centre to the north consisting of a tower block and podium and all around segregated pedestrain walkways, that very post-war feature, giving access into surrounding residential blocks and estates. As the opening note also mentions some passive provision for the long hoped for Underground extension (mooted at times to be either the existing Bakerloo or the planned Victoria line) was also included in the scheme.
For whatever reason none of this plan came to pass and so this, with its echoes of the ultimately unsuccessful Elephant and Castle scheme a few miles north, remains a fascinating 'might have been' of London's "new" 1960s future. As well as the Green this sketch shows pedestrian flows at both ground level and, above, on high level decks.
St Stephens Lane looking north from the junction of Falcon St and Dogs Head St with St Stephens Church in the right background. The lorry is a very tight fit. All of the buildings on the left were demolished soon after the photo to make way for the Buttermarket Centre.
It's being restored as part of the waterfront redevelopment which is on land formerly used by Georgia Pacific Pulp Mill. The Granary was built in the 1920s for Whatcom County's poultry industry. It's been used as storage, or vacant for decades. They plan to lease it out to restaurant and office use. May be a while before they find businesses to lease, who knows, or maybe they already have?
Open house discussed the long term plans for that new neighborhood. There's a lot of park space and bike paths in the plans. It will be a while before other parts of that area get developed, but the city is starting to build some streets and one of the parks.
I would guess a lot of what it becomes will depend on what uses sign the leases. It could be several more years and even decades in the making.
Talking to one person, from the city, I noted the bike planning. I remarked that it's much better than the Cordata Neighborhood, in Bellinghan. Cordata was planned for cars. Cordata is more sprawling. I think city planning has improved since the 1980s when Cordata was beginning. The woman I was chatting with said, back then, they thought there would be a lot more business in Cordata, but it turned out to be more residential and also the home for Whatcom Community College. She mentioned that Cordata Parkway is going to be redone with bike lanes. Today, it's 4 narrow lanes and hardly any traffic. It doesn't need those 4 lanes. Better with two lanes and bike lanes. She said they are planning to put Cordata Parkway on a road diet.
Back to the waterfront, a friend of mine wonders if the Granary will work since it doesn't have lots of parking. Yes, Americans are still addicted to cars. I'm not sure what they are planning. If lots of uses and residences go into the waterfront area, people can walk to the Granary. Otherwise, I just got to thinking, they may have to put in a temporary parking lot. A parking lot until more things get going down there?
As always, there's a lot of paperwork and planning in these things, but at least it's getting started.
Upgrade of the intersection of Thomas and Walker Streets from a roundabout to signals. To install a joint-use signal mast and street light a section was cut out of the shop awning as a temporary arrangement. The shops along Walker Street were abandoned at the time and have since been demolished for a new civic centre project.
Incidentally the roundabout here was installed in the early 2000's and replaced earlier signals installed in the 1970's!
Saw these Paradise Circus artists impressions on the former Birmingham Central Library in Chamberlain Square.
Part of a set I plan to print out and join up as a montage.
The bus station is scheduled for redevelopment. The bus station will be moved behind the existing one, and in the place of the old station will be a new shopping complex. Work is due to start soon.
This photo is by Shirley Davis.
We're back into the work we're doing on documenting the market hall before it's redeveloped. Here's one of Shirley's well seen views of the Hall.
Chesterfield Borough Council is redeveloping the Market Hall and replacing all the interior shopping areas and reconditioning much of the building. This will take from early 2012 to early 2013.
The Council has asked Chesterfield Photographic Society to record this change and you'll see lots of photos as time progresses.
The photos all appear in:
www.flickr.com/groups/1806033@N22/
Other flickr members are welcome to post photos, please see the Group description.
A removal lorry parked outside Schomberg House as Orange Headquarters moves to other temporary premises in East Belfast. A new interpretative centre is to be developed at Schomberg House. Work is due to commence early in 2014 25/12/2013
I’ve been complaining for years that there’s surprisingly little industrial sites to explore in Cardiff, well, I’m pleased to say I’ve finally found one!
Late 1930’s engineering works, empty as it’s due to be demolished to make way for ‘mixed-use redevelopment’.
This area was just the muddy banks of the tidal Taff before it was reclaimed and a timber pond built in 1890s. Timber ponds were used to store imported timber for pit props etc. The pond was drained in 1937/38 and land reclaimed proper. Around ten large structures were built and used as foundries, factories, engineering works etc during the second world war to manufacture all sorts of metal products, including munitions and tank components. Most of these were owned by the Curran family of businesses who had set up 'Edward Curran Engineering Co' in 1903 at Hurman Street, not far from Clarence Bridge.
"In 1915 Curran's converted a building next to their iron foundry into a plant for manufacturing shell casings. Production of brass howitzer shell casings started in 1916, continuing until the end of the war with over seven million 41⁄2‑inch shell casings produced. After the First World War the business diversified and it products included enamelled metalware. These were manufactured using the staff and equipment previously used for shell casing production. By the 1930s Curran's was virtually the only British company with significant munitions manufacturing capability, and it took a leading role in the British re-armament" (wiki)
Soon after the Second World War, some of these new buildings were surplus to Curran's needs, so they were sold on.
This building was taken over by 'Renold Chain' in 1947 to manufacture sprockets.
"The upper part of both buildings were offices. Pattern shop, canteen, chauffer's garage & boiler house below. The factory was fully open inside with a common walkway running down the middle (under the roof valley). Bottom left part of factory closest to the river was heat treatment with fenced off areas for each department inside. I trained as a Turner/Toolmaker but worked in every department as part of my apprenticeship"
"During my time, it was known as Renold Gears, Renold Power Transmission, Renold Couplings, Clutches & Wheels to name a few."
(These two quotes are from an ex employee on facebook)
Renold Couplings moved out in the 1990's (possibly a gradual move as different dates have been mentioned) and the building had multi occupancy from then on with internal walls being built. See below for some of the businesses who were based at the building in the later years. Renold Couplings are still trading, they’re based in Wentloog.
I believe that the building was bought for £805,000 in 2017. The building was due to be demolished in 2020 so that the whole area can be redeveloped (Covid postponed demolition). The site is a 10min walk to the city centre, plus on bank of the Taff, I’m surprised that it’s lasted so long.
"Demolition of existing buildings and structures and the comprehensive mixed-use redevelopment of land at Curran Embankment to provide up to 2,500 new homes, business space and a mix of complementary leisure, food and drink, hospitality, retail and health and wellbeing uses, creation of new open space (including a new riverside park and water taxi stop); new pedestrian, cycle and vehicular access points, pedestrian footbridge; vehicular and cycle parking facilities; landscaping; public realm and other associated ancillary and highways works"
Looking in from the outside, I assumed it was going to be a featureless shell, a quick explore, but ended up spending all afternoon in there before it got a little chilly. Returned a week later to take some external shots. Bumped into security while taking external shots!
Atlantic Box (bought by DiamondPak, Pontypool?)
Taylor Sheppard Engineering Ltd
Ryan International Ltd (Dissolved September 2018)
Aluminium R.W. Supplies Ltd (Administrators January 2019)
Hanson South Wales Ltd
Finebran Ltd (Scrap Metal Merchants)
Direct Storage
At the begining of April 2017 the new square is being paved and the new glass entrance is clearly visible. The McEwan Hall is to be used for the summer graduations at the start of July 2017.
In 2013 the University of Edinburgh announced plans to spend £34m on improvements to the McEwan Hall and Bristo Square area. www.ed.ac.uk/estatesprojects/central-area/live-capital-pr...
Designed by LDN and Buro Happold this scheme is designed to restore the A listed Robert Rowan Anderson building to its former glory whilst enhancing accessibility and increasing capacity."
www.urbanrealm.com/news/4305/University_of_Edinburgh_subm...
LDN images: www.ldn.co.uk/projects/mcewan_hall.php?m=10#
Work started in April 2015.