Sardinia – Old House
13.09.2012Found on “La Casitta”, Santa Maria, a small, almost uninhabited island of the La Maddalena archipelago, now a National Park.
Sardinia – Palau
13.09.2012Palau is a comune in the Province of Olbia-Tempio in the Italian region Sardinia, about 220 km north of Cagliari and about 30 km northwest of Olbia.
Sardinian Mountain Range
13.09.2012This was the view from our hotel, Hotel Arathena in San Pantaleo, Sardina.
Sardinian Clouds
13.09.2012Some cloud formations taken on my honeymoon. Click the images to see the colour version.
Stourbridge Multi Storey Part II
07.04.2012It’s all gone, the skyline of Stourbridge was changed forever as the multi storey car park was demolished within seconds by controlled explosives on Sunday 1st April.
Read more: Express & Star
Stourbridge Multi Storey
07.04.2012All taken in the not so nice smelling stairwell of the no longer multi storey car park.
Brierley Hill Part IIII
26.03.2012These flats are two of the eight that tower above the Brierley Hill, Chapel Street estate. Hundreds of terraced houses were originally built on the site of Chapel Street during the 19th century, housing the many industrial workers who were being employed at new factories. But by the end of the Second World War, many of these houses were unfit for human habition and plans were soon being made for their demolition.
By the end of the 1960s, all of the old houses in the area had been demolished and replaced by a new housing estate that consisted entirely of council flats. There were eight tower blocks and approximately 15 smaller blocks that were between three and six storeys high. The estate was soon regarded as one of the best council estates in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley (which had absorbed Brierley Hill in 1966).
However, the estate has deteriorated considerably in recent years, and is now one of the most crime-plagued parts of the Dudley borough. Drug-fuelled crime is a serious problem, and in recent years many of the flats have been occupied by Asian and Eastern European asylum seekers.
Brierley Hill Part II
26.03.2012Just one the many pubs that have closed in recent times. There are several pubs in Brierley Hill that are currently boarded up and closed for business, no doubt soon to bee corner shops and takeaway restaurants.
And of course the bill stickers have arrived, Zippo’s Circus are quite the advertiser.
Brierley Hill Part I
26.03.2012Brierley Hill is a town and electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England. It is one of the larger Black Country towns with a population of 9,631 and is heavily industrialised, best known for glass and steel manufacturing, although the industry has declined considerably since the 1970s. One of the largest factories in the area was the Round Oak Steelworks which closed down and redeveloped to become the Merry Hill Shopping Centre. Brierley Hill was originally in Staffordshire, but was transferred to the West Midlands metropolitan county upon its creation in 1974.
