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During the 90s came gentrified housing for young professionals, offering accomodation that would seem cramped by the standards of a 19th-century miner's cottage ...but then, we mustn't grumble, because life is so much better now, isn't it, and of course a developer needs to optimise the profitability of the land at his disposal. A silly footbridge now spans the neck of Bathurst Basin. I seem to remember that you used to cross by walking over the top of one of the locks ...or perhaps there was a primitive footbridge which could be raised to allow the passage of shipping. The "regeneration" of Bristol's harbour proceeds, and now cranes are at work over in Canon's Marsh where building seems to have been going on for about 20 years.
Impressive shop/flats at the top of Horfield Road, Kingsdown, Bristol. Until recently the shop was home to a book binders. Now being converted to flats(?)
I'd never noticed it's impressive turret like bay window before...could this be a 1920's interpretation of Bristol Byzantine? (Red/yellow bricks etc)
An attempt to fit the vanished 1960s buildings into the present-day landscape. Works reasonably well.
Red Square.
A double exposure (film camera) that my sister inadvertently got of a goose at Lake Padden and Fairhaven College dorms.
Fairhaven College Court Yard.
View from Music Building plaza out over Bellingham and Georgia Pacific Pulp Mill.
When I came to Bellingham for college in the 1970s there was no Boulevard Park. I heard about that space in a Geography of Recreation class. Dreams about what it could become.
It was over a bluff, out of sight and out of mind. I walked down there after hearing about it in the class. It was a grassy, trashy field full of broken glass, concrete blocks and blackberry thorns.
Bellingham's waterfront was mostly industrial, or abandoned industrial sites. The smell of chlorine and the sulphite pulping process filled Bellingham's air much of the time; depending on how the wind was blowing. That was from Georgia Pacific Pulp Mill.
There were, basically, no greenway trails back then.
Bellingham's greenway system didn't get started till the early 1990s when voters approved the first Greenway Levy.
Yes, there was one bike path. It was along Lakeway Drive near the cemetery and the mausoleum. It was full of sharp bumps from cheap pavement and tree root damage.
Downtown was pretty scruffy. There were no street trees. They were planted in the 1980s and have had many years to grow.
As I remember, planting of the street trees was paid for by developers of Bellis Fair Mall. That was part of a compromise, with the city, allowing the mall to be built. There was fear that a mall could kill the downtown. Bellis Fair opened around 1987.
Downtown Bellingham was practical, but maybe not that pretty. Pulp mill employees got free meals at the Horseshoe Café as part of their benefits. Traffic was pretty bad and there were fights at the Flame Tavern.
Bars were smoky as Washington State hadn't outlawed smoking in taverns yet. That came in the early 2000s.
Rent was a lot lower compared to wages, but wages were low as well. Less people were wanting to move to Bellingham.
Western Washington University had two small dorms in the Fairhaven Dorm Complex that were shuttered due to lack of students. Enrollment had dropped since the days when people crowded into college to avoid the draft.
Eventually, a resident aid talked Campus Housing into opening those two empty dorms, so some students could go without roommates. He said, he wanted to have a "community instead of a sardine can."
My parents paid for me to have a single room so I didn't have a roommate anyway.
Residents set up an experimental commune in another one of those little dorms in the complex.
Two more of the little dorms were for senior citizens going back to college. That was a program called The Bridge Project.
Having a big stereo system was a status symbol.
TVs were fairly rare and mostly black and white. Dorm lounges sometimes had color, if the TV wasn't stolen. There was very little choice in TV channels.
I was into radio, back then. I thought that being able to get both Seattle and Vancouver AM radio was a big feature of Bellingham.
FM, from Seattle, was scratchy at best. AM was better and (back then) there wasn't static from computers in the residence. FM, from Vancouver was good.
I spent much of my youthful years fiddling with antennas.
Needless to say there was no internet, or smartphones.
People were starting to be able to use computer terminals in Bond Hall. Alphanumeric characters on monochrome screens.
Dorm rooms had landline phones as I remember. Students got billed if they made long distance calls.
When I moved to a rooming house off campus, there was one shared phone in the entry hall. It was for incoming calls only. There was the fear that someone would run up a huge bill making long distance calls. The rotary dial had a lock to prevent outgoing calls.
Rent for my room was below Bellingham market then and would really be below market now. $55 per month.
Some folks remember the past through rose tinted glasses.
My memories are more mixed as a lot of things were more spartan back then.
In some ways, we live in very rich and colorful times, these days.
Brighter, more colorful lights than before, due, in part, to LED technology. I've heard that the average supermarket had around 4 or 5 thousand items during my high school years. Now it's more like 30 thousand items.
Today's expectations are higher so we often feel just as deprived as ever.
We also suffer more "choice anxiety."
Seems like more people fall off into homelessness now as one big factor is the increased price of certain basics such as housing, healthcare and tuition at college.
Building A completed. South east corner Arbutus Street at laneway
Note the complete absence of fences or construction equipment.
The Willis Faber building viewed from the north with a reflection of the adjacent Unitarian Meeting House clearly visible. This building is also Grade 1 listed and was constructed in the early 1700s. The other reflection is of St Vincent House. This Collection was donated by Dr Steeds.
n 1939 Dr Roger Steeds, general practitioner joined the three Staddon brothers who were in practice at 6 Silent Street. Just before the war, the building was threatened with demolition because of road widening. The practice moved to 18 Silent Street. It was said to be a purpose built building with three consulting rooms, dispensary, reception area and waiting room and caretaker’s flat. However, the building was wrecked by a bomb during the war but re-erected in 1946. After the war as each of the Staddon brothers retired, they were replaced in turn by Dr Roy Webb, Dr Sheila Hines and Dr Bunt Drabble. Dr Steeds retired In 1966.
The Mailbox redevelopment at the end of February 2015.
This time started off near The Cube, and went down the stairs. But one route was blocked off, so had to walk via one of the car parks, to the Harvey Nicols exit.
Everyman Cinema - now open.
With a tribute to the late Leonard Nimoy who played Spock in Star Trek.
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER RIP SPOCK
Spock died in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, but was resurrected in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Spock Prime was last seen in Star Trek into Darkness).
The cinema is only showing 5 films by the looks of it.
Continuing construction work on what was the Westralia Swamp. Note that they've torn the backs off the Royal Insurance and WA Trustee Buildings to integrate them into the new structure.
By the summer of 2006 the Sports Centre, much rebuilt and enlarged, had been reborn as Easton Leisure Centre ...wheelchair accessible, with CCTV cameras, bicycle racks, grafitti and ample provision of "disabled" parking. The factory has gone from the left-hand side of the road, and trees have flourished to attain a height of 50ft or so during the 25 years since the previous photograph.
This is a view from the upper floor of the old train crew depot building at Dundee (latterly the Network Rail offices), just before demolition.
Down below, we see the cleared site of the travel centre block and the remains of the footbridge (188J) crossing the Down lines. This was meant to be demolished over the 2013 Christmas holiday, but bad weather put paid to that. A successful renewed attempt was made over Christmas 2014.
Looks old warehouse/garage-y; in reality it's about 10 years old. It took a long time to convince a major supermarket chain to invest in downtown SD, now there are two. This, and an Albertson's which occupies the ground floor of an apartment building on Market Street in East Village.
Continuing construction work on what was the Westralia Swamp. Note that they've torn the backs off the Royal Insurance (right) and WA Trustee (left) Buildings to integrate them into the new structure.
My buddy Phil Lister and his hubby have become Omaha Hipsters :>). This is the dusk view from their condo.
I grew up in South Dakota, spent six years in Ames, IA (college; grad school) and then two in Sioux Falls. All through that time, Omaha spread farther and farther east along U.S. 6/Dodge Street while the old-school downtown was largely abandoned,.
However, Union Pacific never left; and while I was in college the Old Market district (http://www.oldmarket.com/) began its revitalization. In the last 10 years that activity has spread through the rest of downtown, including the construction of the "Metropolis"-y One First National Center in 2002 (http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=3&id=11nationalcenter-omaha-ne-usa) and over 1,000 apartments & condominiums.
Now work is underway to restore & modernize Omaha Central High School. See its awesomeness here:
More of the changing landscape in Evesham - the beginning of the demolition of the 3000, 4000 and 5000 series office buildings in the Greentree Executive Campus between Route 73 and West Lincoln Drive. This section of the office park will be redeveloped into a mixed-use area called The View at Marlton, with a fitness center, restaurant, offices and a small retail strip. It was built in 1978-79.
The modern counterpart of the previous photo. The Victorian buildings were finally demolished in about the early 90s I think. New buildings have also appeared on the far corner, replacing 1950s properties erected on bombsites. Architecturally these structures are utterly undistinguished. You can't altogether blame the architects who, presumably, have to work within a budget, against their own inclinations and according to certain constraints imposed by the authorities. But you can't help wondering what the future compilers of architectural guides will find to say about the commercial buildings of the late 20th century. As more and more of these identikit structures go up, so British cities come to look more and more alike. New housing on the outskirts, all built to a pattern, has the same effect. Gradually the whole country is homogenised and takes on the blandness of a blancmange.
Wilder Street in the autumn of 2006. Since 1981 low-rise housing has been erected on both sides of the street, which has been doubled in width. A few older buildings remain at the far end of the street. A peculiarity of the district is the striking costume and heavy use of cosmetics among the womenfolk; also their easy chatter with motorists who may halt at the kerb.
An area of redevelopment next to the Bargate. Some of the shops that were there last time we were in that area have been knocked down.
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Let's pretend I deliberately focused on the fence to obtain that cool looking blur on the stuff in the background...
Back Door to the Chester Market Car Park. Slightly attractive in its sheer brutal concrete grottiness. All to be demolished in the Chester Northgate redevelopment.
Battersea Power station development looking along Nine Elms Lane SW8 - site of Northern Line underground extension terminus
Victoria Street seen again in October 2006. The site of the "Byzantine" buildings (see previous photo) is now a Novotel hotel. Cart Lane is still there as a pedestrian path. The houses beyond have been rebuilt in stage-set designer's Georgian.
The former premises of Britten and Bannister shoe manufacturers on the corner of Argyle Street now flats.
This collection was donated by Peter Underwood, founder member of the Society, ex-Chairman and Vice-President
This portion of the future Renaissance Square at Marlton, where the Kmart one stood at Tri-Towne Plaza, is planned to be a group of five apartment buildings. A small retail strip is to go between these and the highway.
The sixties redevelopment which had ousted Dundee's historic old Overgate was scarcely 30 years old when its turn came to face the demolition hammers in 1998.
By the early seventies the rapid realisation of what had been lost, and replaced by this trash, had effectively traumatised a generation which still hasn't fully recovered.
A panaromic view of Suva's iconic Albert Park undergoing redevelopment with the new pavilion taking shape in the foreground, Fiji Museum side of the ground. Shot taken from the Parliament end of the park.
Title: 6-34 Troy Street
Creator: Urban Redevelopment Division, Boston Housing Authority
Date: circa 1952-1958
Source: New York Streets Urban Renewal project, Boston Redevelopment Authority photographs, Collection # 4010.001
File name: NY_0058
Rights: Copyright City of Boston
Citation: Urban Redevelopment Division, Boston Housing Authority photographs in Boston Redevelopment Authority photographs, Collection # 4010.001, City of Boston Archives, Boston
This view looking north from the west side of Princes St shows part of the Greyfriars development on the right with the Willis Faber building in the centre. In front of this building is the semi underground night club constructed in the centre of the roundabout which was only accessible by one of the pedestrian subways associated with the roundabout. The roundabout and unused nightclub building were replaced in 2012 by a re-modelled traffic light controlled junction, This Collection was donated by Dr Steeds.
n 1939 Dr Roger Steeds, general practitioner joined the three Staddon brothers who were in practice at 6 Silent Street. Just before the war, the building was threatened with demolition because of road widening. The practice moved to 18 Silent Street. It was said to be a purpose built building with three consulting rooms, dispensary, reception area and waiting room and caretaker’s flat. However, the building was wrecked by a bomb during the war but re-erected in 1946. After the war as each of the Staddon brothers retired, they were replaced in turn by Dr Roy Webb, Dr Sheila Hines and Dr Bunt Drabble. Dr Steeds retired In 1966.