So does no-one have a clue where the old farm building is? Or is it that
we'd actually rather talk about computers than canals?

Steve

2009/2/26 Steve Haywood <[email protected]>

> The last pictures I posted were so popular I thought I'd do the same again
> when there was stuff I couldn't identify. I've often drawn attention to the
> fact that the canals weren't as twee and pretty in the  past as they are
> now, and these two shots seem to demonstrate this. My best bet is that they
> were taken in 1983, and the derelict terrace, which I feel sure was
> somewhere on the Coventry, was not unusual. There seemed to be derelict
> canalside cottages and house over the place in those days, and Em and I were
> constantly talking about buying one, doing it up etc etc. If dreams were
> currency we'd be wealthy people now.
>
> The second picture is more problematic. It's not exactly derelict, but it's
> seen better days. It seems to be an old farm building about to be swamped by
> the engulfing tide of some city or town estate, the roofs of which can be
> glimpsed to the right of the picture.
>
> Bother places, I guess, don't exist any more.
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/10393...@n06/
>
>
>
> Steve
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